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[ECBG]

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!

[Oznell]

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!

[ECBG]

@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.  

[Lucky Charm]

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

[ECBG]

@Lucky Charm 

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

[ECBG]

@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.

[ECBG]

@Lucky Charm @Oznell 

I just found this and subscribed.

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

[Enufstuff]

@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.

[Oznell]

@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!    

[Oznell]

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.