As you can see, I love my blue and white china as well! And so did our maternal grandmother…
I have some of that same Chinese export china in my dining room cabinet.
I wish I had a picture of our mother’s hutch…I’m sure with some digging around I can turn something up. Stay tuned for more blue and white china.
some of my favorite things
I guess you can tell that I like blue and white china. Most of this is Spode (the real thing, hand made in England, not the stuff they are currently making in China) from my mother-in-law (bless her!) plus an eclectic assortment of odds and ends that I just like including: an antique Japanese plate ( top shelf, center back); a Suzie Cooper creamer and sugar bowl set (top shelf, center); a ceramic seal (hard to see, top left), my sweet tiny loons, three cool pebbles, and china sherds I picked up in the garden or on the beach in England. As I was dusting these today I was reminded of what the artist Kandisky once wrote:
“Everything that is dead quivers. Not only the things of poetry, stars, moon, wood, flowers, but even a white trouser button glittering out of a puddle in the street…Everything has a secret soul which is silent more often than it speaks.”
dual personalities 