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Creating a Display
Decide if you want to display your antique ceramic pots in different parts of the house or together as a single collection.
Determine a theme that pulls several of your pieces together in a unified group.
Think about the rooms and surfaces of your home, and relate them to the types of pottery you own.
Determine what other types of antiques you have that can be used in a thematic display.
Place pottery in a case with sturdy display shelves or an antique cabinet if you decide to keep your collection together.
Buy old wooden milk crates or soda crates to use as platforms for the pots. Position them so the tallest crates are in the back.
Use some of the pots as bookends in an area of your library, where you keep old books. These pots look especially nice with old leather or faux leather bound books.
Set up a display with old medicine jars in the corner of your bathroom, on a window, or in a recessed corner of the tub.
Add antique linen hand towels and dried flowers.
Place pieces of product-specific pottery on your fireplace mantle with framed vintage advertisements. This works really well if you can find the corresponding advertisement.
Create a traditional hearth by placing heat resistant pottery and cast iron cooking pieces on the "step" of your fireplace hearth.
Add antique cooking utensils tied with calico ribbon and pumpkins.
Place antique pottery in an old pie safe with ceramic pie holders, a collection of colorful pie birds, old spice tins, and antique mixing utensils.
Create a table display by placing your antique pots on a gingham tablecloth.
Add dried tricolor corn cobs, scented candles in holders, and rolls of silverware tied in matching table napkins.