Sandra se Winkel

05/10/2026

💲✔️ (♨️ Drostdy / Grahamstown Potteries 1948-1985)

⚜️ MID-CENTURY SEA-GREEN LOG TROUGH VASE NO.2⚜️

c1950s-60s 🔆
SKU: 132 | R 420
Dimensions: 293 (L) × 100 (W) × 85 (H) mm
Provenance: Private collection, Sandra Se Winkel (SSW)

Condition: Wear to the foot rim consistent with age; no chips, cracks or crazing.

This Drostdy vase is a long trough moulded as a log, with a bark-like surface of horizontal ridges and a slightly irregular rim. It is finished in a glossy sea-green glaze that breaks paler over the raised bark. The underside is glazed and the impressed mark appears to state 1236.

A distinctive and collectable example of mid-century South African studio ware from Grahamstown Potteries.

Sold singly. Two more log trough vases are listed: one more sea-green (SKU 133) and one cobalt blue (SKU 134). Make an offer for all three!

Available for SA Only 🇿🇦
🏷️ Price as listed.
📍 Based in Central Drakensberg, KZN
📦 Local pickup welcome or Pudo/PostNet shipping available at buyer’s expense.
💬 DM me directly to secure it!

05/10/2026

💲✔️ (♨️ Drostdy / Grahamstown Potteries 1948-1985)

⚜️ MID-CENTURY COBALT-BLUE LOG TROUGH VASE ⚜️

c1950s-60s 🔆
SKU: 134 | R 420
Dimensions: 290 (L) × 100 (W) × 86 (H) mm
Provenance: Private collection, Sandra Se Winkel (SSW)

Condition: Wear to the foot rim consistent with age; no chips, cracks or damage

This Drostdy vase is a long trough moulded as a log, with a bark-like surface of horizontal ridges and a slightly irregular rim. It is finished in a glossy cobalt-blue glaze that breaks paler over the raised bark. The underside is glazed. The impressed mark is not clearly visible.

A distinctive and collectable example of mid-century South African studio ware from Grahamstown Potteries.

Available for SA Only 🇿🇦
🏷️ Price as listed.
📍 Based in Central Drakensberg, KZN
📦 Local pickup welcome or Pudo/PostNet shipping available at buyer’s expense.
💬 DM me directly to secure it!

05/10/2026

💲✔️ (♨️ Drostdy / Grahamstown Potteries 1948-1985)

⚜️ MID-CENTURY SEA-GREEN LOG TROUGH VASE ⚜️
c1950s-60s 🔆
SKU: 133 | R 420

Dimensions: 295 (L) × 100 (W) × 83 (H) mm
Provenance: Private collection, Sandra Se Winkel (SSW)

Condition: Wear to the foot rim consistent with age; no chips, cracks or damage

This Drostdy vase is a long trough moulded as a log, with a bark-like surface of horizontal ridges and a slightly irregular rim. It is finished in a glossy sea-green glaze that breaks paler over the raised bark. The underside is glazed and bears a faint impressed mark (possibly 1236).

A distinctive and collectable example of mid-century South African studio ware from Grahamstown Potteries.
Available for SA Only 🇿🇦
🏷️ Price as listed.
📍 Based in Central Drakensberg, KZN
📦 Local pickup welcome or Pudo/PostNet shipping available at buyer’s expense.
💬 DM me directly to secure it!

21/08/2026

Polkadot teepot R135

17/07/2026

09/07/2026

25/06/2026

17/01/2026

Think before you just buy
You have choices, think about the world your choices create

My dad handed me two clothespins. “This,” he said, “is the story of everything.”

In one hand: a clothespin from the 1960s. Solid hardwood, smooth from decades of use. It still works perfectly, some 60 years later.

In the other: a clothespin from 2025. Lighter, paler wood, brittle. The spring is thin and unstable. Marketed as “extra durable,” my dad just raised an eyebrow.

At first glance, it’s just two clothespins. But they tell a bigger story — the shift from durability to disposability, from craftsmanship to cost-cutting, from stewardship to constant consumption. This is planned obsolescence in action.

Products are designed to fail so we must keep buying. Slowly, subtly, they break. Frayed wires, cracked hinges, brittle springs. Not because we want more, but because the old was never built to last.

The costs are everywhere. Landfills overflow. Wallets empty. And maybe most quietly, our spirits grow accustomed to impermanence, to the idea that nothing is meant to endure.

What if this philosophy extends beyond objects? What if it shapes how we treat relationships, communities, homes, even the Earth — as temporary, replaceable, disposable?

It doesn’t have to be this way. That 1960s clothespin reminds us another path is possible. That we once made things to last, and we can again. That quality, care, and intention matter. That we can design for repair, for continuity, for meaning.

The story in my palm is about more than laundry. It’s about the choices we make — and the world they create.

07/12/2025

Those were the days....

26/11/2025

Kyk net hoe cute!!