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Watercolor by Bob McAnespie Our shop is located in the heart of old South Tampa. It was founded in 1992 by Dr. Frank and Paulette Vasey to provide a creative and artistic learning opportunity for our daughter, Rebecca, who has cerebral palsy. From a more practical perspective, we had no more room for antiques in our 7000 square foot, 1920’s home in New Suburb Beautiful, just blocks away from the antique shop! We also have a son, Matthew. He is quite fortunate as he is able to do occasional “walk through visits” of the main house and antique shop to select prize antique possessions to decorate his various abodes as he travels the country to complete his medical school rotations. We moved to South Tampa in 1977, from Montreal, San Francisco, Philadelphia and other places north. We had great foresight in selecting South Tampa as our permanent home. The Palma Ceia Porcelain and Art Pottery antique and book shop is a family passion. It is one of the prettiest and most elegant shops you will see, and we have traveled nationwide visiting shops and malls to bring treasures back to Tampa. All are hand selected…no “containers from Europe”… and no “consignments”. Palma Ceia Porcelain and Art Pottery has an eclectic grouping of Arts and Crafts Art Pottery (Rookwood, Roseville, Weller and others) American and European porcelain (Transferware, Flow Blue, Staffordshire, Limoges, Paris Porcelain and others) and old and used books. More recently, we have added to our old book inventory, now over 3000 volumes. For example, “Beast” Butler’s Civil War autobiography is available. He threatened to treat the women of New Orleans as prostitutes if they insulted his troops!Rebecca and Dawn do a fabulous job managing and operating our “Mom & Pop” shop on Mac Dill. But this “Mom & Pop” is “high tech” as we are computerized, and most recently, we even have a website. We are located in the heart of old South Tampa at 1802 South Mac Dill Avenue across from the Palma Ceia Country Club and Golf Course. We have ample parking and love to teach about our antiques and old books, as well as learn from our most discriminating customers. |
