Show Me Your China Pattern

[Patty]

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On 7/28/2004 2:23:59 PM diamondlil wrote:


Hope this picture posts. Here is the room the *regular* dishes match. My mother decided they were perfect. Oh well . . .

DiamondLil
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Diamondlil, this room is gorgeous! And the dishes are perfect for it. Your mom did a great job!

 

[diamondlil]

Thanks, Patty. I have a couple murals I've painted in my house. I'm slow at it, but it's good *therapy.* I hope to start another soon.




DiamondLil

 

[JennyN]

Here is mine. I hope you can see it, as it's the 1st time I've ever attached a photo.

This was my grandmother's pattern, Rosenthal's Diplomat. I'm a "southern girl" & it seems kind of southern or English country to me. It's really ornate & probably not what I'd pick now, but I love it because of the sentimental aspects. I also have her Fostoria crystal and silver.

Several years ago, I was in Las Vegas on a business trip. After getting burnt out on the casinos, I visited an outlet mall & found almost an entire set at a Noritake store for $70. It's a pattern called Hurley & has kind of an Asian blue & white porcelain look to it. I've sinced filled in some of the missing pieces on Ebay.

JennyN

 

[cflutist]

JennyN, your grandmother's china is very pretty

 

[finerthings]

I like this thread! My china is the Lenox "Urban Lights" in a cream color, with black and gold rim. I have my mother's china too, but the style is too fussy for me. Believe it or not we had been married over 20 years before we chose this china. I guess we never really thought it was a priority. Instead we would use our everyday ware (which actually is very nice stoneware make by Royal Doulton), but to make it special we would use our inherited sterling silver flatware. I enjoy the specialness of having the china now!

 

[glitterata]

Oh, I like that! I can see how it might be too fancy for the kids' peant botter sandwiches, but you'd feel like a princess eating off it.

Edited to say, oops, Finer things, we posted at the same time. I meant the previous picture--your china's lovely too, but not too fancy for peanut butter.

 

[diamondlil]

Oh, Finerthings, I love the simple elegance of the cream and black.

DiamondLil

 

[AGBF]

Like others of you who have contributed to this thread, I have different sets of china, including several sets for Christmas. This is "my" pattern, however, the one for which I registered when I got married. It is "Lafayette" by Ceralene Raynaud. I believe Baccarat bought the company a few years ago.

 

[finerthings]

Thank you. I think it's neat to see our china patterns.

It's like we've been invited into each others homes for a glimpse!

 

[innerkitten]

Well I don't have any china but I do collect depression glass which has some very beautiful patterns.
I collect royal lace in pink. Found these pics online
http://www.firstclassglass.com/royallacepink.html

and iris herringbone.
http://www.firstclassglass.com/irisiridescent.html

I'm collecting them a few peices at a time because their hard to find.

 

[finerthings]

Innerkitten, WOW how beautiful! What a wonderful collection, and adding each piece slowly is a nice way to delay the gratification!

I don't know if I could do it that way!

 

[JennyN]

FinerThings, I love your china. My cousin got it a few years back & she ended up accenting it with some salad plates in a coordinating pattern. They had sort of a toile or fleur-de-lis pattern on the inner part of the plate. It's really stunning. I think your pattern is so tailored & classy looking!

 

[cflutist]

Here is our china.
The set on the right is Lenox Tudor (now discontinued). This was what I had before I met websailor.
The plates on the left are Lenox Westchester which we aquired together.

 

[cflutist]

Here is a close-up of the 24K etching on the Lenox Westchester. I threw in the 3.01 F-SI1 pear just for fun. When I first met websailor, he was afraid to eat off the china because he knew one place setting cost more than his entire set.

 

[ringbling17]

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On 7/28/2004 2:23:56 PM Patty wrote:

Kayla, does your Noritake Silver Palace have different plates? It looks like the one is rimmed in a blue pattern while the rest are white on white.

HI Patty,
It's actually the accent plate and it's like a shiny charcoal color.
I only decided to purchase the china because Fortunoff's was having a sale and we were in the process of doing the dining room. We had purchased the dining room furniture, paintings, mirrors, chandelier and since I have always liked that pattern, I thought we should just get it since the sale was really good.
I got each place setting for 50% off, plus a bonus accent plate, soup bowl and charger. They were running the sale during the summer and then they sent me a 20% coupon to use on anything I wanted, including the china!
So, I got the three extra plates, 50% and then 20% on my entire purchase.
I think I did pretty good!

 

[Jennifer5973]

Wow, everyone's china is so beautiful--I love the older sets, the new funky ones...I wouldn't know what to choose.

I have simple cream china with gold border...very plain (I don't even know what name brand it is) and several sets of fun dishes for every day. My mom gave me her Lenox Christmas set for 12 with the gold-plated flatware but I never use it...it's packed away and such a pain to take it out, wash it, wash it again by hand after use, re-pack.

 

[Mara]

cflutist...I really love the one on the left, the etching is beautiful. Alas, we'd never have a dinner formal enough to use it..so I can only drool over yours.

 

[fire&ice]

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On 7/28/2004 5:08:27 PM innerkitten wrote:

Well I don't have any china but I do collect depression glass which has some very beautiful patterns.
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We collect Modern Tone. It simple blue w/ co-centric circles.

What a fun thread! I will have to post pics of my patterns.

My wedding china - Penrose by Minton

 

[AGBF]

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On 7/28/2004 9:32:08 PM Jennifer5973 wrote:



"I have simple cream china with gold border...very plain (I don't even know what name brand it is)...."

My sister-in-law gave us an absolutely enormous set of china-plain white with a thin gold border-by Richard Ginori. (This was a wedding gift). That china has been a lifesaver. It is the most useful I have or can imagine. I can add it to Christmas plates at a Christmas party or just set it out by itself. It is simple and classic. I am with all of you who laud the virtues of plain cream (or white) dishes!

Deborah

 

[Matata]

This was mine until I sold it at a recent garage sale. I like to mix and match dinnerware and it's too expensive to do that with china so I switched to less costly sets. My weakness is fine crystal ware.

 

[MichelleCarmen]

I'll have some china pictures to add soon! My husband's father is sending us a set of fine china passed down from his current wife's side of the family. I have NO idea what the pattern looks like, but will post photos when it arrives.

We'll have no use for it as my kids are dangerous around anything of heirloom quality, but I still hope the set is pretty because when the kids grow older, I'd like to have it for the holidays.

Michelle

 

[ringbling17]

Hi Michelle,
Congrats on the new china!!! I hope you love it! Or better yet, get a chance to use it. I have yet to use my set. I really want to try to host a cocktail party, like on this show I watched the other day on the food network. I think it was called House Party or Party Starter or something. I kept thinking through the whole show- Yeah, I can do that!! Maybe one day........

Cflutist,
That is a beautiful pattern you picked out. I guess the diamond ring also makes it more appealing to my eyes!

 

[moremoremore]

WOW!!! What a fun post!!!

I've since sold almost all of it on ebay and now use plain white b/c my tastes have changed (in like 4 years...lol)...

But it was "fun"...every piece is different and it goes into the oven and freezer which was cool!!!

I/m a firm believer in using what you have every day...so I didn't go with fancy china...

 

[quaeritur]

ok... this is the set we registered for in Europe (my dad's side of the family is in the Netherlands). To this day, I have not seen anything like it. It's really only on display and I view it as a piece of art -the porcelain is so fragile it's translucent, and I'm afraid to touch it!

It's by Rosenthal, and inspired by the opera "The Magic Flute." Passages from the opera are handpainted on the back of each dish. Both my parents and my in laws have added pieces to the set for several of our anniversaries... that's made it extra special to us.

Thanks so much for starting this thread, it's made me rediscover my love for these pieces!!!

 

[cflutist]

quaeritur, your china pattern is absolutely stunning. I'd be afraid to eat off it too.

 

[quaeritur]

Thanks cflutist! It was your china patterns (beautiful, by the way) that prompted me to post those pics

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This is the far less ostentatious stuff (from IKEA) we use every day...

 

[cflutist]

We do eat off of our china but I (noticed I said I not we) have to hand wash it later which is a pain. I don't know if it makes the food taste better though

Websailor would just rather eat off of paper plates.

 

[Iceman]

I dont get it ?


aka "a man"

 

[hoorray]

Wow -- these are all beautiful sets of china -- all so different!

I don't have pictures of any of mine, but I have a major dish fetish! I love setting the table with different looks to fit the event/mood. However, I'm banned from buying any more dishes unless I get rid of one (and even then, getting rid of one would be tough to justify to DH at this point, so I guess it's no new dishes for me for a while!)

I have a lot of the plain colored Pottery barn dishes -- a set in off-white, and a mixed colored set. I can use them all together if I have a large group, or mix a colored set for a casual summer dinner.

I have Lenox McKinely for my wedding china with plain ivory serving pieces and filler pieces. I use if for Thanksgiving, and like having it to be able to dress things up, but it's really somewhat overkill. I never use my wedding crystal. We are big wine drinkers, and prefer to dring out of glasses designed for the wine than designed just for looks. Maybe it should be destined for Ebay!

 

[fire&ice]

Here's our formal Holiday China. The smaller is a handpainted Limoge. The larger is a design by a Bauhaus Architect "E. Wahliss".