Four galleries in one offer an eclectic collection of objects new and old. Among them: antique wooden spindles from Albania, above; spice boxes from Pakistan on a hand-engraved copper tray from Turkey, above left; and wire sculptures. The owners of Gallery 4 are Bob Smith, artist Susan Freda, Anne MacPherson and Elaine Hill.

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Did you say you needed a camel stand? How about tent stakes from the Sahara?

Or a dress of crocheted wire accented with tree sap? Or natural-looking solid granite bird baths and fountains?

Sound like impossible finds?

You can buy all of the above in one place, and it’s in Rhode Island. Those and lots more are on display inside 3-year-old Gallery 4 at Tiverton Four Corners.

And even if you haven’t been shopping around for a camel stand, you might want to take at gander at what one looks like. Gallery 4 is a place to poke around, oohing and aahing at the museum-like items.

It has four owners — importers Bob Smith ( bartlettrs@aol.com) and Elaine Hill ( emhill@charter.net), and artists Susan Marie Freda ( www.susanfreda.com; suefreda@yahoo.com) and Anne MacPherson ( annccc@charter.net) — and each has a niche, resulting in an eclectic collection of indoor and outdoor decorative items.

Recently, besides the aforementioned camel stand ($1,600) from Morocco, Smith’s section of the gallery featured Vietnamese coffee tables ($1,900), each carved from a solid piece of wood, and ceramic elephant stools ($550). Last fall in China, he picked up dining room tables ($3,600) whose tops were reconditioned doors, circa 1850s, and wedding chests ($2,500) with red doors.

“I look for things that are different and have style,” said Smith, a former documentary and commercial filmmaker who calls his shop-within-a-shop, Wanderer Imports. “Each piece has a story.”

Smith said that he stumbled onto a wealth of hard-to-find antiques and handmade furniture while working on a film in China five years ago. “The local people took me to small villages where furniture was being made. I thought ‘maybe other people would be as interested as I am.’ ”

NEARBY ARE THE RUGS ELAINE HILL of Silk Road Traders imports from Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Russia, Poland and Iran (starting at $450). Her section includes jewelry ($20-$200), silk place mats (set of four, $140), wool bags ($60-$150), silk scarves ($38 and up) and slippers ($30) from Morocco.

Hill, a former flight attendant, packs her area with colorful Iznik ceramics from Turkey. The decorative plates ($175), tiles (starting at $80), and giant vases ($2,000) featured designs of cloud bands, tiger lips and tulips.

It was her section that featured the tent stakes ($175) from the Sahara, which look like sculptures.

The necklaces, bracelets and earrings from Istanbul are popular, she said, as are coral and mother of pearl jewelry from Indonesia and amber pieces from Poland and Russia.

The front section of Gallery 4 features Susan Marie Freda’s sculptures of wire, lace, resin and glass. Her signature pieces are dresses ($150 for small table-top; $3,300 for life-size) she creates by crocheting wire. She then adorns the knitted wire with dollops of color from tree sap or glass or resin.

A 1996 graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island native Freda was displaying wire cuff bracelets ($50-200) and earrings ($38-$42) of cast lace knitted into silver and gold and accented with semiprecious stones. Her wire mesh bowls are $28 to $500. She also has glass and wire wall hangings, sculptures, and hanging lamps that fuse wire with blown glass and textiles with glass.

Artist Anne MacPherson of Westport, calls her section Functional Sculpture. She creates large-scale garden and interior decorative items made of granite and marble.

Her smallest item was a bud vase ($35) made from rocks she picked up on the beach. She offers various sizes of serving bowls ($150 and up) shaped like shells, bird baths (starting at $300) and fountains ($1,500).

Her work is natural and earthy. “My bird baths remind me of an iceberg,” MacPherson said. “It took me a couple of years of experimenting to get the bowls exactly how I wanted them.”

MacPherson, a former flight attendant who has “always had a fascination with stone,” said she has lugged back rocks from as far as Europe and Asia.

MacPherson said that she feels lucky to be included in Gallery 4. “The fact that it is eclectic and elegant and the collections are changing all the time is what keeps people coming back.”

Gallery 4, 3848 Main Rd., Tiverton Four Corners, (401) 816-0999, is open Mon.-Sat. 10-5; Sun. noon-5.

— FAYE B. ZUCKERMAN