China Finds

Rosenthal's Garden Caprice plate

 

There is a sign I love at one of my favorite stores.

 

My grandma used it, 

My mom threw it, 

And I bought it.

 

Rosenthal's Garden Caprice pattern

So fun and true for me! 

 
The sign is at my favorite consignment shop, Legacies, Ltd. in Fox Point, Wisconsin.  The shop features fine antiques and collectible treasure and furniture. The turnover at Legacies is fast, so visiting every month or so is like visiting a different antique store, with items beautifully displayed.  I think most pieces displayed are washed and cleaned, dusted, etc. as well.  Every month the price on remaining pieces drops 15%, so older items are discounted.  If you really want a piece, buy it quickly, otherwise you can hope the price will drop when you next come in, if it is still there. 

Caverswall china Edith Holden 'April' plate

Shopping at Legacies is an adventure in finding treasure.  The three plates I am showing in this blog post are plates I bought at this store.  The two Caverswall china 'month' plates were under $10 (I know I got both discounted - they hung around for 1-2 months).  The Rosenthal plate was probably $12. (Full price, I bought it the first day I saw it.)

 

 

 

Caverswall china Edith Holden 'June' plate

After I have bought an item, I sometimes get around to researching the piece on-line (usually for a blog post ;)  

 

I haven't seen all of the other months from the Caverswall monthly plate series (from 1981-1982), and I am not going to go out of my way to collect them, but I enjoy the two I found.  The color and graphics are so fun.  The backs of the Caverswall plates have quite a bit of information on them.  Apparently the plates were inspired by an illustrated book.  Read the back inscription - it's funny how many people wanted their name on the back, and it makes it harder to find these plates on eBay.  

Caverswall china Edith Holden 'June' plate back

Replacements.com indicates the Rosenthal Garden Caprice pattern was discontinued around 1930. I love the exuberance of this plate, but I really wouldn't have the space (or money) for a full set, so I am happy to have this one plate.

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Living Room China Cabinet

Lexington China Cabinet

Readers familiar with my blog may have seen some of my excessive plate collection displayed in my Welsh Dresser (see links below).  Today I thought I would share my living room china cabinet, which is an entirely different style.  (There is no consistent decorating theme flowing throughout my house...)

Image 2: Lexington China Cabinet Top

In 2010, I was lucky enough to get a magnificent Lexington China Cabinet from a moving sale.  I practically had to pass an interview before the wonderful couple moving sold me this piece, along with a dining room table and six chairs.  (It's a good thing my house has an April Aire humidifier, for example.)  They would not sell the dining room table and chairs without the hutch.  Fortunately, my husband had previously agreed I could purchase a dining room table and chairs.  This china cabinet would be forever out of my budget (with four children and limited income) if I hadn't found it at this sale.  (The total for the hutch, table and chairs was under $1000, hardly inexpensive, but definitely a great deal) 

 

The two piece china cabinet has beautiful wood, a mirrored back, individually paned beveled glass doors on the front, and a curving arched center, with inset lighting.  The side windows are not beveled glass.  This is undoubtedly the best piece of furniture I own. (Unless the 'antique' furniture I've collected here and there are of an Antique Roadshow caliber, which I daydream about, but realize is highly unlikely)

Does your heart ever beat faster when you get find an incredible find?  I can still look at this furniture months later and smile. Often, at night, it is the only light on in the living room as we watch TV.

I think my Welsh Dresser is great at displaying an assorted collection of plates and objects that don't match, because the Welsh Dresser has no glass doors or lights to compete with the collection.  The living room china cabinet is a different story.

 

 

My living room china cabinet is better suited for the German Rosenthal china set my parents got when they married, which I was given in 2002. Because the china cabinet doors are beveled, I think it works well if the china pieces displayed inside match.  The beveled windows, the smaller panes, each work to render the display inside in a more impressionistic or surrealistic manner.  Sometimes you can't quickly make out what you are looking at with all the glass, and I think with the matching china you get a pleasant  impression of glowing color and shapes with a pattern to it.

Image 4: Pink Depression Glassware

I have several different sets of stemware on the various levels.  It's hard for me to have a large piece of furniture and not use it for storage, filling it only sparingly.  If I had a larger house, I would probably change the way I have the bottom level and the glassware arranged.

Below I opened the door and took a shot inside to show you the Rosenthal china without looking through the beveled windows.

Image 5: Rosenthal Pompadour china

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