sauce dishes

There are a lot of pretty dishes out there, and when the time comes we'll assemble our own set instead of getting a box of something generic. Sometimes, though, it's hard to choose.

Sauce dishes are a place where I think it would be more interesting to collect than to choose. There are these ceramic dishes and these glass dishes, and many more to consider. I'm indecisive to begin with....

Instead of having a serving set for 8 or something, we'll probably collect pairs of interesting dishes that we think are neat, and just pick whatever we want to use. This might also carry over to other small dishes and serving bowls or platters. Matching isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Mudflat Gallery

Mudflat Gallery is a little store at Porter Square (Cambridge, MA) that showcases an interesting mix of work from fibers and paper art to glass and ceramics; their website is pretty terrible and useless though. My favourite pieces were the dichroic slump glass dishes done by Judith Copeland, and though her website doesn't do it justice you can see a few more of them at another gallery. Mudflat sells the smaller 3"x3"ish ones for about $14 each, but the craft is very nice. The palette of greens, blues, and violets is obviously appealing to us, and they would easily make a nice set of matching-but-not-identical dishes for something. I have no idea what though. Lisa Knebel also had some noteably nice pottery, which can also be seen at the other gallery's website. Swirly pottery is nice; spotty pottery is ugly.