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Calling Oznell

ECBG — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:51:30 GMT

In the thread with the cake plate, you said you were fond of blue and white.

Do you have much experience with antique blue and white
"fadeware"?

When DH and I were first married and lived in a very large city, they had an antique show-sale once a month at the fair grounds, one area was a giant enclosed hall.

One dealer would put large china cabinets end to end around his booth and had a massive display of fadeware. It was SO pretty. We were buying antique furniture then and I could never get into it.

I have barely seen fadeware since.

In getting you an image, I read the time period was 1800-1849. There's what fueled the cost!

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Oznell — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 20:41:48 GMT

How interesting, @ECBG . I'm not familiar with the term "fadeware", but the picture you show looks very much to me like what I've always called "flow blue". I wonder if the two are one and the same? That's a beautiful plate.

I LOVE flow blue-- the slight blurriness or "misty" quality it has, softened edges. I like anything that reminds me of the liquidy softness of watercolors.

If fadeware and flow blue are the same thing, I'm glad to learn a new term for it!

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ECBG — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:28:00 GMT

@Oznell

I think you have to "plug in" blue in front.

I learned the term from a former antique dealer just before the virus.

The picture said there were some pieces on ebay, however googling the term brings up a lot of blue delft as well.

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Lucky Charm — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:39:43 GMT

@Oznell as I've always known it as flow blue or sometimes flo blue.

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ECBG — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:12:45 GMT

@Lucky Charm

Sooooooo glad to know that! Thanks for lending a hand!

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ECBG — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:20:00 GMT

@Oznell

I went down the magazine isle when I went to the grocery store today and thought you'd be interested in the "Blue and White" seasonal magazine. It's probably a seasonal thing.

I barely buy decor magazines now because of all the white and tan being used. Also, not a fan of of "over accessorizing" and words all over (one is overkill to me) in signs and plaques. It wasn't very thick. It seems this was the cover.

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ECBG — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 22:46:47 GMT

@Lucky Charm @Oznell

I just found this and subscribed.

https://www.antiquers.com/threads/value-of-a-new-wharf-flow-blue-platter.69412

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Enufstuff — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:57:07 GMT

@ECBG @Lucky Charm @Oznell The type of blue and white ware pictured, has always been known a flow blue, here in the Northeast. My grandmother was collecting it in the 1980's. I have only one piece. It is a large oval serving dish.

Fadeware is an interesting term. I'll have to google it.

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Oznell — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 00:58:04 GMT

@ECBGand @Lucky Charm :

Good to know, @Lucky Charm !

That blue and white mag, @ECBG , looks like it could be a very good read. Agree, many decorating magazines are so pallid and "one-note" these days. Also, too expensive.

That "Antiquers" site seems like it would be an excellent resource.

I love the constant flow of interesting and useful info here on the Q boards, thanks!

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Oznell — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 01:02:07 GMT

Oh, I just saw your post, @Enufstuff . How lucky to have a large flow blue serving dish. You can use it, and also display it! It is truly a beautiful type of china.

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Enufstuff — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:05:45 GMT

@Oznell Right now that serving dish is sitting in my china cabinet. I actually bought it for my daughter who has Blue Willow dishes and collects other blue and white pieces.

In 2014, I bought the serving dish for potato salad that I was

serving at a 1914 Garden Party for the Centennial celebration of

my house, which was built in 1914. The plan was to give it to my daughter after the party, but it ended up in my china cabinet.

I sort of forget about it, until now. I'll have to see if she wants to take it home.

For the party, we had tables with white linens set up in the garden and on our wrap around porches. All the food was what would have been served in 1914, for a picnic or garden party.

I made assorted tea sandwiches, potato salad, cole slaw and Swedish pickles. My daughter made a molded gelatin salad and from a local restaurant , we got fried chicken. For dessert I made a Bundt lemon pound cake decorated with fresh strawberries, brownies and little ice cream cups and watermelon. We also had old fashioned salt water taffy.

Antique glass pitchers held lemonade, iced tea and ice water. We had a cooler filled with small bottles of sodas that would have been popular at that time. The small children were served milk from an antique milk bottle.

We had a music CD with 1914 music and I placed stereoscopes with cards to view, on my wicker tables. From my

garden, I made floral arrangements for the dining tables. We had croquet set up on the lawn.

Each guest received a little penny candy bag filled with

candies that were available in 1914. The grandsons received a 1914 penny in a coin case and the grand daughters received little floral design magnets.

For the adult guests, I made glass paperweights with images

of antique floral designs inside. They were presented in green velvet bags. The ladies were each given a"votes for women" pin that I got from the Preservation Society in Newport Rhode Island.

Everyone dressed in 1914 attire. We had straw boater hats for the men and I bought round collared white shirts for my son and husband. All the ladies had decorated straw hats and

antique jewelry. I made my dress and bought an antique white

eyelet trimmed dress for my three year old great grand daughter. She wore a wide lavender satin ribbon waist sash and a large bow in her hair with the same ribbon. I took a picture of her with an antique wicker doll carriage that belonged to my mother.

After planning that party for two years, it turned out quite well. It was a perfect Sunday afternoon in June.

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Oznell — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:25:35 GMT

Oh, my goodness, @Enufstuff -- you are amazing! I stand back in awe at your ingenuity and attention to detail at bringing that all off!

What fun it must have been to plan and research. Your menu alone had my mouth watering. Yum! The images you conjured up were so evocative-- when you were describing the clothing, I was picturing something out of "Meet Me in St. Louis"-- even though the time period was a little earlier than yours.

Your guests, not to mention your honoree, (your house, ha,) all must have had a wonderful time. So glad you shared that amazing story with us!

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Enufstuff — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 02:43:34 GMT

@Oznell Thank you. It was fun planning the party and all the details. My oldest daughter and I are real nerds when it comes to

researching all the fine details. If I hadn't the need to work for a living, I would have loved to have a party planning business.

Over the years, I've had so many theme parties. For the grand daughters and great grand daughters, I had Victorian tea

parties for each one's tenth birthday. For the boys, I had pirate

treasure hunt parties. The porches were great for the children's parties.

Some of my favorite adult parties were my Asian dinner party and my Egyptian dinner party. The 2000 New Year party was another good one.

Now I'm retired and have all the time and I'm tired and partied out. Since Covid, I don't entertain anymore. I wish this would just go away, but it doesn't seem likely, anytime soon.

It was all fun at the time.

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Oznell — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 12:22:35 GMT

Oh, I'm sure it was huge fun, @Enufstuff ! Don't write off your celebrating days just yet-- an irrepressible spirit like yours will find some kind of 'out' for your hospitable creativity-- somewhere, somehow....