Just Jo

18/09/2026

One last French painting before I start packing up 🇫🇷

I found this old harbour scene on this trip and loved it straight away. The faded blues, sandy ochres, old sailing boats and that gorgeous timeworn frame. It has that quiet, slightly faded French look I can never resist.

I’ve had it hanging in the house for a few days and I’ll be sorry to take it down, but it’s coming home with me to find a new wall.

A lovely old French oil on canvas, signed lower right, with plenty of age and character.

50 x 70 cm
£140 plus delivery 🇫🇷

16/09/2026

Before washing machines, doing the washing involved one of these…

Old French battoirs à linge, or laundry bats, once used at the village lavoir to beat wet linen against the washing stone, helping to loosen the dirt and rinse out the water.

Such simple everyday objects, but now they make the loveliest pieces of old French kitchenalia. I particularly like them grouped together with old breadboards and pottery.

Or perfect to use as a small individual planche for meats and cheeses.

Each one is slightly different, with years of knocks, wear and lovely old wood.

Approx 40cm long x 15cm wide x 4cm thick.

£28 each
or 2 for £48
plus p&p

Old French things with a story. My favourite kind 🇫🇷🤎

14/09/2026

I went to France looking for antiques…

And this is what made the cut 🇫🇷

A bit of everything I love finding over here. Old paintings, faded florals, chippy paint, French pots and those slightly odd little things I can never resist.

All found on our travels over the last couple of weeks and all coming home with me.

And yes, even the rug I’ve used to display everything is for sale 😆

Everything shown is available:

🇮🇷 Original antique Iranian hand-knotted rug
160 x 104cm
£180

🇫🇷 Antique French landscape oil
34 x 39cm
£120

🇫🇷 French two-tier hand-painted metal table
Two removable trays and folding legs
45cm wide x 54cm high
£80

🇫🇷 Huge French confit pot
32cm high, with old damage
£85

🇫🇷 Medium French confit pot
24cm high
£95

🇫🇷 Small French confit pot
21cm high
£80

🇫🇷 French oak wall shelf
44cm wide x 32cm high x 15cm deep
£38

🇫🇷 Little chippy French stool
40cm wide x 17cm high
£30

🇫🇷 Two madeleine tins
£24 the pair

Postage or courier extra where applicable.

Message me if you’d like anything. First come, first served as always ❤️

And now I need to work out how all this is fitting in the van… 😆

09/09/2026

I have absolutely no need for three old chippy French locks.

Obviously I bought them. 😂🇫🇷

Old paint, rusty metal, great k***s and years of wear. I just think they’re gorgeous little things.

£28 each plus p&p.

Follow for more French weird old crap. 🤣🇫🇷

06/09/2026

This is exactly what I hope to find in France 🇫🇷

A small old oil painting, loosely painted on board, with the loveliest soft blue sky, autumnal trees and reflections on the water.

It measures just 28 x 22cm, so it’s one of those little paintings that can go almost anywhere.

Signed lower right and with plenty of age and wear around the edges, which I rather like.

£95 plus p&p

And then there’s the easel…

I LOVE these old tabletop easels and they’re surprisingly difficult to find. This one has the prettiest carved detail and makes a lovely way to display a small painting, photograph, menu, old print… whatever you fancy.

£48 plus p&p

Both bought here in France 🇫🇷

And yes, I’d quite happily take both home with me. 😂

05/09/2026

Turns out, I don’t just buy chests of drawers… 😆

One of the things I love most about buying in France is that I find myself looking at completely different things.

Things I probably wouldn’t come across at home. Things I don’t necessarily need. Things I have absolutely no idea whether anybody else will want.

Which, after 40 years of buying antiques, is still the best sort of buying.

Old textiles, tiny mirrors, faded needlework, strange little boxes, paintings, pottery, pieces of old French life and anything with good colour, age or just that certain something that makes me pick it up.

Some sensible buys.

Some interesting buys.

A little look at what’s been coming home with us today 🇫🇷

Anything you’d have wrestled me for at the brocante? 👀

05/09/2026

03/09/2026

Apparently Tom has decided he’s coming for my job. 😆

Another one of his buys from Lyon and, I have to admit, I’m rather liking these.

Three old French enamel street signs in that fabulous deep cobalt blue, complete with old chips, knocks and years of wear.

They just feel SO French. 🇫🇷

And now I’ve propped them against our old stone wall, I completely get them as interiors pieces.

One on a kitchen wall.
Propped on a shelf.
Mixed in with paintings and old plates.
Or just somewhere that needs a little bit of France.

The Jean Larrivé and Claude Farrère ones are particularly lovely with the old occupations and dates still underneath.

So yes… Tom may actually have been onto something. 🙄

Three available, all bought in Lyon.

£95 each plus p&p.

02/09/2026

Annoyingly, Tom found this one… 😆🇫🇷

Bought in Paris and I absolutely love it.

An old French oil painting of lilacs, all those faded mauves and creams, the sludgy green pot and a lovely little signature in the corner.

And then there’s the frame.

Chipped, battered, bits missing and absolutely perfect exactly as it is. Proper faded French grandeur.

It seems rather fitting that I’m giving Tom the credit , because 43 years ago today, on 2nd September 1983, we went on our first date.

Never did get round to getting married 😂 but apparently we did manage to spend 43 years buying old stuff together.

58 x 49cm

£145 plus p&p 🇫🇷