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Across the Fence:  What kind of china or pottery are you?  |
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mollymae
True Blue Farmgirl
694 Posts
Molly
Visalia
California
USA
694 Posts |
 Posted - Oct 22 2005 : 11:42:47 AM
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Hehe hi Meadowlark! I miss you guys too! Been going through some issues in life that have emotionally prevented me from doing much lately internet wise, but I think I'm back for good! I need you guys too much! 
Cead Mile Failte,
Molly
"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."~Rumi
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Julia
True Blue Farmgirl
1949 Posts
Julia
Shelton
WA
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2005 : 2:07:57 PM
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Hmmm?I would have to say it depends on my mood. I have bone china tea cups, HOmer Laughlin,"Pastoral" (it has farm scences on it; cream with soft green picture)tea cups, fiestaware, and inexpensive mugs from the dollar sore. I have tea cups I use more in the spring than the fall and vise-versa. I have a tea cup that my dad gave me that I use when I am feeling melancoly. Mugs when I just want to curl up and be cozy. Regardless of the cup, I always have my chocloate!
"...the setting sun is like going into the very presence of God." Elizabeth Von Arnim |
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MeadowLark
True Blue Farmgirl
2206 Posts
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2005 : 2:21:30 PM
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Julia, I have not heard of Homer Laughlin....does he paint the farm scenes? They sound beautiful!
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connio
True Blue Farmgirl
535 Posts
connie
springtown
texas
USA
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Posted - Oct 22 2005 : 2:32:58 PM
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Hey Farm Girls!!
Molly Mae
I am so glad that you are back. I am certain that you know that the Farm Girl tribe is always ready to lend love and support.
Right Girls!!!!!
Connie
cozycottage |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 9:03:27 PM
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| i like white 'ironstone' .. goes with almost all heavier dishes or stands alone .. can be used alone for a more 'simple' all white table .. it's durable .. each olde piece has it's own history .. and you add your own as you use it. |
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Shirley
True Blue Farmgirl
734 Posts
Shirley
Olympia
Wa
USA
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Posted - Oct 23 2005 : 11:29:42 PM
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I have portmeirion botanical garden dishes, they are so pretty, that I could be one of those flowers any day, they have so many different botanicals flowers on them I could be a different one every day.
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 06:56:06 AM
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I have blue willow for everyday and I love the teapot! It's round roly poly shape (like me!) can fill 4 good sized mugs or 6 teacups so there is always plenty to share!
My good dishes are Royal Tonquin staffordshire(cranberry) that has a victorian house/scene I just love and they are dishes I started collecting by finding 18 pcs. for 9.00 at a flea market when I was first married.These dishes are my victorian fantasy life!
From my Mom I have a whole set of Liberty Blue that I have on display in a Welsh cupboard type hutch and I remember us getting all the different pieces week after week at the market during the bicentennial so they hold a very special place in my heart! NIce to hear that they made their way west too Westfork Woman!
My Gran left me a giant collection of Rosepoint w/ the flowers (Raised rim white dish with center spring of pink, blue, yellow green flowers) that my husband thinks is too "girlie!" so I use them for
girl stuff!
Shirley- I love Portmerion Botanical too and have a few serving pieces , they are great and wear like iron! I have a friend who has them and I tease her I come to visit her dishes!
Melissa_ That type of pottery was common throughout the Northeast(PA, NJ, NY, CT) in it's time and is also known as salt glaze stoneware. The blue ornamentation comes from cobalt. I have a few old crocks similar to your reference that my Mom collected, but prices are too rich for me, so I have collected reproductions that have been more affordable. Check out Rowe pottery, David Eldreth (he's in PA) and also does Salt glaze w/ the blue santas annually that my husband gives me when he can find them . They are done in his own style but remind you of sort of new age chocolate molds if that makes sense!
There is also a potter Anne Fritsch Martin who does some really nice salt glaze w/ cobalt crockery, pots, etc for a living history museun in New York state, She's a sweetheart and will do custom orders for things if you ask also.We used to do a three day artisian show and she would have made someone a whole set of dishes that she would bring with her as well! She made a crock for me when my son was born and I just love it! Hope that gives you some leads if you want to add to your collection!
Incase you are all wondering...yes, I am a dish junkie! Or as this thread started... I have multiple personality dish disorder!
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sqrl
True Blue Farmgirl
605 Posts
Melissa
Northern California
USA
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Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 09:32:12 AM
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Hey Bramble, Thanks for the info. I understand the salt glaze technique, never done it myself but when you love to hang out and play in cermanic sutdios you pick up things. Now I know what this pottery is called. I have two big, old crocks that the studio that I worked in, in LA were getting rid of so I snatched them up before anyone else could . Other than that My everyday dishes are an interpration of that style made by pfaltzgraff. But I would love to some of the real thing. Unfortunitly I seem to always pick the expensive stuff to like.
Blessed Be
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westfork woman
True Blue Farmgirl
554 Posts
Kennie Lyn
Emmett
Idaho
USA
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Posted - Oct 24 2005 : 8:41:43 PM
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They sure did, Bramble. Albertsons had them, I wanted them so bad, but decided I just couldn't afford them. Every time I went to the store it almost killed me looking at them, on Christmas when I opened the box you could have knocked me over with a feather. I don't know how my MIL got them, because we almost always went to the store together. Christmas dinner is about the only time we use them, but just looking at them in the china cabinet makes me happy. We inherited 2 other sets from my MIL. One is Homer Laughlin's Brittany pattern, a really pretty white with burgundy rims, with flowers and gold trim. We have a granddaughter named Brittany, so they will go to her. The other set is a pink and gold set from the 60's. Very elegant. Both sets are for 18, she must have liked big parties. This dish thing is a disease, I have run out of wall space in my kitchen for hanging blue dishes, and the china cabinet is full.
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bramble
True Blue Farmgirl
2044 Posts
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Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 05:31:04 AM
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Glad to know you've got this too! I wonder what it is that makes us drawn to so many different types of dishes? Mine is a family attachment in part, but the others are all me! Albertson's here is still called Acme but that is where we bought them too! What a nice MIL! The Liberty Blue platter is Washington Crossing the Delaware which is right nearby. We have gone to the re- enactment a few times on Christmas Day and it certainly makes you think about what harsh conditions they endured. A teacher once asked my son how he knew so much about colonial America and his response was "Have you seen my Grammy's dishes?"
Sqrl-Lucky you to have gotten the two crocks !I too seem to have what my Mom referred to as "Champagne taste and a beer budget!" Keep looking though, I get lucky every once in a while, I bought an old Heinz pickle crock for 10.00 a few years ago.
"Doctor, doctor...Give me the news, I gotta bad case of..." dish collecting blues!
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
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Posted - Oct 25 2005 : 05:38:07 AM
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| Melissa - go to www.rowepottery.com They have great salt-glazed pottery. I have several pieces and still love them after 20 years. It is a little pricey, but you can also find it on Ebay and here and there for less. |
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