ANOTHER OBLIQUE OBSERVATION FROM MEMORY AND PRESENT CURIOSITY






by happenstance, I found some info about this small Zaalberg 'cabinet' vase: (Familiebedrijf: 1918-1937 H. Zaalberg Sr., 1937-1962, M.H. Zaalberg, 1962 H. Zaalberg Jr. Eerst onder de naam Pottenbakkerij De Rijn, Vanaf 1942 tot heden wordt uitsluitend de Zaalberg merkstempels gebruikt.) ....in Dutch, of course, which I cannot comprehend.......the vase was made by Meindert Zaalberg...during my visit to Holland and the "Artist Colony" near Soest....

My memory circuits required a massive amount of koffie to dislodge this relatively unimportant information... Then, from another 'memory cell' of my brain.......I remembered my trip to Soest, Holland....to visit my then-pregnant friend, Cheryl Lowe Ransijn.....who was driving a couple of times a week to take piano and Dutch Language lessons from her tutor, Ma Fra Tenkate (spelling as I remember the sound of her name), who also directed, in her multi-lingual home, a Colony of young Artistes who lived under her tutelage and adhered to a Philosophical Stance that was similar to that of Madam Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a century before.....incorporating Philosophy, Dogmatic Religion and Pseudo-Science....like most Religions, everywhere else in the World....'Required Reading', of course, was THE SECRET DOCTRINE.....Oh, No!.....I'd just escaped a 'reading circle' at The Palace, in Atlanta, where artsy intellectuals sat in a circle...reading excerpts from this paranormalist humbuggery, to a backdrop of Sitar and tabla music that was so fashionable at that time......Well,,,,,,I fled this whacko Einhoven Scenario, as its 'ringleader' pleaded for me to become a member of her Cult of True Believers......and returned to Soest, where I spent the rest of my 'Trip', drawing in sketchbooks.....my 'feelings' about all this........As I was departing, 'Ma Fra' handed me this little curio cabinet vase...as a gift of remembrance.....The little vase has gathered dust in a storage room for decades....until I took it out, yesterday, to 'research'.....since I knew nothing of its origin/maker/meaning-significance......Its surface looks a bit like the NASA photos of the Moon's surface.......

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