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[Katcat1]

I think entertaining and setting your table is a wonferful way to show your taste and style.  The dining room chairs' fabric is horrible in my opinion.  I do like that care/design was taken to setting the table with crystal, sterling silver and the beautiul flowers.

[sceniccoast]

Beautiful, elegant set table.  For me, the floral arrangement really makes it pop!  Love the colors.  The rest of the room, not so much.

[Nonametoday]

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@froggy wrote:

I love it! Especially the crystal glasses. I've never seen any like that.

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@froggy 

My crystal champagne flutes are similar and my Revere silver bowl is like that except with scalloped edges.  I have not used it in years.  I bet it is black (LOL).  I don't polish silver any longer and neither does my husband.  He cannot and I do not have time.  I once had a sweet and wonderful housekeeper who would do that for our special holidays.  She loved making everything pretty for me and even if I asked her not to go to so much trouble, she insisted. 

Now the housekeeper I have spends 35-45 minutes here with her spouse and collects a large sum of money, never dusts properly or cleans the bathrooms as she should.  It's like the mow-and-blow guy who does very little, is here about 30 minutes and collects 3x what a real gardener charged 5-10 years ago.

[Nonametoday]

Well, I love everything about it and I especially like the more casual fabric on the chairs that is a juxtaposition to the very formal table setting and the green from the table setting and blue from the chinoiserie, I think, is just beautiful.  It just gives it a special romantic appeal.

[shoptilyadropagain]

Too frou frou for me and my lifestyle and, individually, I'm not fond of the pieces.

[proudlyfromNJ]

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@Witchy Woman wrote:

@BirkiLady 

If I am looking at the same items as you, I'm wondering if maybe they are small salt cellars?  I think I see a tiny spoon in one.

Or even butter dishes?

Someone that sets a table this elegantly would surely know how to use napkin rings.

In my former life of entertaining, I loved settings like this.

Those days are long gone and I miss them sometimes.

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@Witchy Woman @BirkiLady   I'm with you. They are salt cellars with the spoon with a pepper shaker next to them. Definitely not napkin rings.

[Witchy Woman]

@Lucky Charm 

I agree with you about that lone plate.  I didn't notice it before, but it looks adrift and out of place. 

And, it draws attention to that wallpaper, which I could live without.

The table is sublime, but that plate needs repositioning...or something

[CANDLEQUEEN]

Beautifully set table!!!!!

[ladyann45]

I think the arrangement was done to the  porttion of the table and for a person not to see each other has to be really small like a child. Some people chooses arrangement based on the size of their table, but I think it looks that way because  of how  the picture was taken. It is stunning I must say.

[BirkiLady]

@Witchy Woman @proudlyfromNJ  I initially wondered about salt cellars, too . . . until I noticed individual salt shakers in front of each place setting. Narrowed them back down to sterling napkin rings. Agree, it seems strange.

ETA: Butter dishes are just that: very small dishes to match the china. Usually only 1 1/2 - 2 inches in diameter, much flatter (like a tiny plate) with curved sides to hold a couple of pats of butter. I've never seen butter dishes with high, round edges or in sterling.

ETA #2: The only other thing I can think of is a sterling finger bowl. And I believe that's what it must be! Lined with blue enamel to hold water. Very pretty.