A day at the Gardiner

My wife, a very good friend and I spent yesterday at Toronto's Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. We were planning to view their new special exhibition, On the Table (100 Years of Functional Ceramics in Canada). Though there were some interesting pieces among the contemporary artists' works, none really attracted me as much as the functional while magnificently decorated ancient pottery from Mexico and Central and South America produced centuries, perhaps thousands of years ago by the proud cultures of the Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayas and Incas.