Antique porcelain cups and plates in Charleston

I saw this complete white and gold porcelain tea set in Charleston but I didn’t buy them because I’d rather have the same pattern ubt in dinner plates. I didn’t want to just keep in the cupboard, I wanted some thing I could actually use. Plates would have been perfect.

It’s rare to find a complete set of cups and saucer good for 8 people.

Too dainty

I must have bought this Meissen floral tea set, I wonder where I kept this.

Nainis naman ako sa asawa ko. He went to my mini farm two weeks ago and had a few roosters killed. Naikwento ko kasi sa kanya na sumbong nung caretaker merong isang tandang na napakasama daw ng ugali. Hayun ipinakatay nya, pero dinagdagan pa ng ilan. Ibibigay nya kay Antonia para gawing tinola. I felt so bad. It was as if he killed a relative. Chickens in our mini farm are living things and they are my pets, not for eating. It makes me happy seeing them roam around. I don’t want them eaten.

Weimar porcelain from Germany. Ganda sana.

Cups and plates on the wall, the colors and patterns look old fashioned. But what did I expect? These are really old.

I like the colors only if I will just hang this on the wall for decoration. For plates I will actually use, I prefer those with not too busy drawings so I could still see the food on the plate.

Flow blue was a type of transfer pottery produced by Staffordshire, England, potters beginning in 1820. Sold mostly in the U.S. market, flow blue was similar to traditional blue-and-white pottery, except that the blue color was deliberately blurred, an effect achieved by adding a cup of lime or ammonia to the kiln during glazing (Wikipedia)

I have a flow blue style painting on our kitchen ceiling. After spending two days meticulously painting our ceiling with blue scrolls, I asked the artist to erase the edges using a piece of cloth. He freaked out and felt insulted.
I was trying to achieve a tone-down version of the scrolls similar to flow blue.

Former New York Giants football quarterback Kurt Eurgene Warner must be a superstar for his signature to fetch $2,500.

$1,500 for this 1970s pearled dog. The last time I’ve seen something like this was at a house of a retired teacher in our town. She had a smaller one displayed inside her glass cabinet.

I love Venetian glass and mirrors. I have a similar one but smaller in size, it’s hanging in the guest room’s bath on our second floor.

$22,000 metal sculpture of what looks like a horse. Ahhh, if I have a large office building with a grand lobby or wide open hallways, maybe I will buy this, assuming that I am a millionaire in American dollars.

I met this cute senior citizen couple browsing around the antique mall also.
I thought they were cute together.

Her name is Betty. She told me she has 8 siblings and 3 had died. Her older sister is celebrating her 103rd birthday soon. She has another sister aged 93. She didn’t want to divulge her true age, just like me.

Nung maliit pa ako, there was an old lady that delivered fresh milk to our house every Sunday morning. The milk was in a bottle slightly thinner than this, covered with banana leaves.

It was instant love, I bought this.

Eight dinner plates

I started getting real interested in European-made porcelain plates when I first went to Cologne, Germany (25 years ago). I exhibited and attended the Annual International Furniture and Furnishings Fair. At night, I would walk from our small hotel to the town plaza. I would window shop (no money to splurge) and I truly enjoyed looking at the window displays of beautiful items. There, even when the shops had closed for the night, they would leave the lights on and I could clearly see the tag prices for each item. I was shocked when one time I saw a $2,000 price tag for a st of 8 dinner plates. I remembered telling Charles Streegan, president of Pacific Traders and Manufacturing Corporation, one of the biggest furniture exporter from Cebu, who was also one of the exhibitors at the fair, that I’ve seen plates that were very expensive. He told me “Oh yeah, there are $1,000 a piece plates”.