Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Blue and White

Blue is my favorite color, so I'm drawn to blue and white dishes more than  other transferware colors.  With yesterday's post still in mind, I'm continuing with a blue and white theme today.  Flow-blue is another example of transferware.  I wish I owned some authentic Flow-blue pieces, but mine are reproductions.  A few years ago Cracker Barrel carried a line of Flow-blue reproductions.  Do you remember them?  I purchased several pieces, and used the teapot and the covered butter dish for this morning's breakfast.  [At least I think it's a butter dish as it seems too small for a cheese dish and doesn't have that odd shaped dome.]


The cup and saucer is bone china from England, made by Duchess in the Genevieve pattern.   The tea is Rington's Classic 1907 Assam blend.  A hearty wake-up tea!


After breakfast I went to my favorite local antique store, La Belle's.  They recently won first place for the best antique shop in Macomb County, MI.  


My purchase today was a Blue Willow luncheon plate made by Bakewell Bros. Ltd. in Hanley, England.   The teacup and saucer is backstamped Japan.   The blue and white pitcher [or milk jug] was an earlier purchase.  It is backstamped Mayfayre, Staffordshire England Pottery.   The other blue and white porcelain trio is a Cracker Barrel Flow-Blue reproduction.  


Below are more of the pieces I purchased from Cracker Barrel [made in China].  They are displayed in a curio cabinet in my living room.


Cracker Barrel also sold a spin-off of blue and white Currier & Ives transferware dishes awhile back.  I asked for them for Christmas.   The teapot sits on a high shelf  in the family room [only ladder accessible], so I had to take a zoom photo.


The dishes set a beautiful wintry tablescape.  Perfect for Christmas time!


Blue Onion and Blue Delft are other lovely transferware patterns, but I don't have any in my collection yet...  Can you tell I like blue and white dishes???  ;-)



4 comments:

  1. The more I read your posts, the more I think we might be long-lost sisters...
    Ok, not really, but we surely do like many of the same things. Blue and white china is another of my favorites, I don't have much of it but I do love it. If I had seen those Cracker Barrel pieces I'm sure I would have bought a few! I do have one lamp that was my grandparents' that I think is flow blue, and it is one of my treasures.
    Thank you for sharing these on your blog!

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  2. You have a very nice collection of blue and white. I enjoyed seeing your photos.

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  3. Ohhhh Cracker Barrel! I wish they were in Washington. Some many of you have shared some wonderful things from there! I so love blue and white. What can be better in my opinion! You have a great collection!
    Ruth

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  4. What an impressive collection of blue and white pieces! Several years ago I saw a Blue Willow patterned comforter set and thought it would be fun to decorate an entire bedroom with Blue Willow and blue wares. Someday!

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