Last week for Tablescape Thursday, I showed a pink theme tablescape as a nod to the 2011 Pantone color of the year, Honeysuckle. In looking through my cupboards, I found more china with pink colorways.
With the flowers from that posting, I have substituted French Alberto Pinto service plates for variety should you do two dinners back to back with the same flowers. If I have guests staying at the house for several days, I like to mix up the china but keep the same flower arrangements. In the six styles of these service plates or chargers, three of them have bright pink in the design as shown below.
Here are a few photos of the individual plates.
You just gotta dig those fancy tailfeathers!
Also in my stash, below, are these pink luster W.T.Copeland plates from the 1860's. They are a lighter color pink and I haven't used them since I found them in 1992 in San Diego when I went to a thrift shop with a friend. I will work them in as a dinner plate.
I also have some pale pink Limoges shell shaped plates which I have used to serve appetizers or sometimes cake for dessert. I found a dozen of these at an antique show in San Franciso around 1994.
Do you have china that you have lost your passion for? Perhaps some that is now discontinued and seems outdated? I bought this Wedgwood Cuckoo bird pattern in 1977, and it falls into that category. Do you look for a way to update your lost love? Perhaps that plate will fit into this pink scheme.
I think remixing the china with newer pieces creates a new look for these plates or casts them in a new role.
I didn't realize how many plates I had with pink in them. Here is a Limoges dessert plate with pink Carnations. I bought this set of a dozen from a seller on eBay who raved about them. Of course, when I got them, I discovered that was all sales pitch. But I kept them to use "someday".
I found a small number of these pink lunch plates, below, in Missouri around 1985. That was when I was very much into the Victoria magazine look. They are unmarked but I think they are English Coalport or Copeland. They now live in an English pine plate rack in one of the guest rooms.
To get more variety, I could also choose green dinner plates to tone down so much pink. Also, for those who asked, the color of the wall in my dining room is a peachy color that goes with the silk plaid drapes and is not really pink. It is Martha Stewart's Nasturtium.
Are you willing to give Pantone's Honeysuckle or any bright pink a spot in your decor for 2011?
I am participating in Tablescape Thursday this week on the blog Between Naps on the Porch.
You can view the other entries here:
http://betweennapsontheporch.blogspot.com/
All the best,
Summer
Photos: Swede
