Safe use of 'fine china' Covered Dish?
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Comments (2)By "six complete sets," do you mean service for six? Consider keeping extra plates, etc., even if you get rid of the serving pieces. Otherwise, one broken plate will mess up your set. Or you could hang onto everything. The serving pieces will come in handy when you use the service. You're lucky to have two serving bowls!...See Moremany pics - china cabinet dish arrangement & $5 find
Comments (16)Hmmmmm. Don't really see a defined theme to the pics-- and there is nothing wrong w/ that. :) It's just giving me pause on what to suggest. I'll throw out a couple of ideas for you to think about. Looks like the wall on the left of the LR opening is not as wide as that on the right so forget about matching for scale. Let's try for similar colors. You could try holding up 2 of the large plates from your father in that space stacked one over the other. Does the gold in the plate compliment the print? If you like that effect, it would be easy to just hang 2 of those for now. You can always keep your eye out for something else that echoes those colors more. Something w/ more gilt on the rim or in the overall pattern? Something like a solid gold charger? Or find a couple somethings the same size/scale of the smaller print on the wall to the left of the cabinet and stack those in that space. Can't really see that print to tell what it is of. But by having 3 of those similar (but not having to match) would balance that side of the room, too....See MoreSPINOFF: China/Dishes - where and do they still 'fit' you
Comments (50)I love this thread and hearing about everyone's china! I love blue and white and have: several different brands of Asiatic Pheasant (all English) in different blues, Johnson Brothers Indies, and Masons Fruit Basket Blue (This is what I use for everyday -- these blues) I have scads of Spode plates as well (in both Blue Room and Blue Italian) and use some as everyday dishes and some as company dishes -- I do have platers and bowls and covered vegetable bowls to go with the Blue Room/Blue Italian as well as blue and white turkey plates by Wedgwood and Myott. My Christmas dishes are Royal Doulton Tartan and I hand carried them home from England -- 8 plates, cups and saucers for $12 -- what was I thinking -- why I didn't get 16 or 24 at that price I don't know! Over the years I have accumulated 12 plates, cups and saucers. I also bought some Lennox Holiday salad plates which look good with the Tartan and gives me Christmas dessert/salad plates. I have my grandmother's china -- Noritake marcasite and it's a cream with gold trim -- I really like it and feel like it sets an elegant table. I also have some Famille Rose patterns which I mix and match -- Spode Famille Rose, Wedgwood Cuckoo and Aynsley Pembroke -- not the new Pembroke but the old one from the turn of the century. I have enough for 8 in those patterns and also have a tea pot, sugar and creamer (in the new Pembroke) so I can use the set for tea. And then I have Noritake Duluth which is a 1920's pattern which is a really pretty delicate pattern with a blue band and pink roses. (I use that one the least and have moved it down to the basement -- I can access it but it isn't filling up my china cabinets LOL!) My "wedding china" was Wedgwood Runnymeade -- which I still adore but my daughter admired it and wanted it and so it was our gift to her for her wedding -- we had 4 place settings and when the three of us went to England we bought 4 more -- and hand carried it home! I adore china and am always being enticed by a new pattern. I use my dishes a lot for we like to have company and it's fun to use different dishes to set a table. I also have my mother's wedding silver-plate, my husband's grandmother's sterling, a set of sterling that we bought for $25 at an auction (everyone saw "stainless" on the knife blade and thought that was what it was!). My crystal was Waterford Kylemore and I still adore it...See MoreChina dishes
Comments (47)Many manufacturers of dinnerware with non-English sounding names - like Pfaltzgraff, Mikasa, Dansk, etc., misleadingly put on a facade of being elegant foreign brands but in fact are US companies and always have been. For many years, companies like these and other well known names as Lenox manufactured their products in the US and in higher-quality foreign locations. Today, I believe all the US factories for these up-market lines have long since closed. Most production is sourced from lower cost and lower quality locations like China. China has had a few too many incidents of contaminated or adulterated products to suit my taste. It's a funny irony because of the name, I prefer not to buy china from China. For those of you getting replacement pieces for old sets, what you buy today may be from a different factory even if the same pattern. Friends have told me of having some success in finding "old" stuff at replacements.com....See Moredoucanoe
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