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Glasgow/Scottish "rustic" wooden fruit bowl?
Last year when I was in Glasgow there was an open-air market taking place, and I bought a fabulous handmade rectangular wooden fruit bowl. My lodger has fallen in love with it and is desperate to have one for herself when she moves out, so I'm hoping someone out there, possibly from the Glasgow area, might be able to come up with the name of the makers! I have Googled all possible variations of the description and searched on eBay with no success.
I have put some links to photographs of the bowl, but a description is as follows:
It is roughly rectangular in shape, and is large and quite heavy. It is about two feet long, 10" wide and 7" high at its highest point. It is made of a light-coloured, unvarnished wood, and is beautifully irregular in shape. It has three separate "bowls" for holding the fruit, one of which in the middle is on a sort of higher tier than the other two. Unusually, there is no maker's sticker or mark anywhere on it.
I suppose the stall-holders aren't necessarily from Glasgow, or even Scotland, or even Britain, but I feel I have to start somewhere!
Many thanks for looking!
Thanks for trying, Starrfyrre!
Good thinking, Alexandra. It wasn't the Barras, but I have a feeling it might have been in St Enoch Square? I think there was a French/German food market that I was looking at first, and then round the corner it was more general crafts. The lady running the stall wasn't from the Continent, but I can't say definitely she was British either! I do remember there was a bank, possibly a Royal Bank of Scotland or Clydesdale Bank, on the other side of the road from her stall, because I went over to draw out £20 to buy the fruit bowl.
2 Answers
- Anonymous1 decade agoFavorite Answer
Can you remember where the market was in Glasgow? There are certain markets that are regular occurrences - i.e. "the Barras". Stallholders there seem to be quite permanent so good chance whoever you bought it from will still be there.
- starrfyrreLv 71 decade ago
This looks like something that was hand carved rather than mass produced. I looked on the internet and couldn't find anything that came close.