The Lenox Factory Outlet is an excellent place to score discounted holiday dishware, like a giant pewter turkey-shaped platter for $50 or a 3-tier silver-toned dessert stand for $39.95.
"Wood Turning in North America Since 1930," the major portion of the exhibition, includes useful pieces exquisitely shaped as bowls, platters, and candlesticks and sculptural pieces sometimes infused with whimsy, sometimes elegantly simple.
The pieces that ultimately become plates, platters and pitchers are then shaped and tooled on a potter's wheel and hand painted with a coat of porcelain.
She liked an enamel industrial-style lampshade, which was shaped like a shallow platter but had a small hole in the center.
Place the football shaped watermelon pieces on a platter.
Platters painted with cartoonlike figures and bowls shaped like squash and parrots are the work of artists with individual styles and made for a good-humored, cosmopolitan clientele.
And there are a huge number of strange spacecraft, shaped like opened grape scissors, or silver platters, or crossed fish forks, that hurtle through the galaxy at speeds rivalling the speed of light.
When I moved out, I took the pitcher shaped like an elephant and most of the platters, but I left in such a hurry that half my books remained.
The superbly crafted, sensuously shaped 16th- and 17th-century goblets, ewers, mugs and platters that abound in the Gilberts' collection are strongly reminiscent of the luxury goods in Rembrandt's painting, Belshazzar's Feast.
Included were several different shaped tureens, one for vegetables, one for soup, two serving platters, and a frilly sugar bowl and creamer.
