More porcelain pictures for you
Jul. 26th, 2019 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wiseheartThe first one is Grandma's coffee set - sadly, incomplete. We only have the 5 cups and 4 saucers left. Too bad, I love the pattern:
The second one is a real family heirloom: a tea set that once belonged to my great-great-grandmother, from my maternal grandfather's side, also known in family history as Grandma Schmitz. I wonder, how many cups and saucers there originally had been - we have 13 cups and 8 cups left. The slightly blackened silver teaspoons are from Grandma, too.
So this is the last of the china photographs. Next will be the dinner service(s), should we ever face the challenge to take them out for a good washing and set the table properly. One of them is a wonderfully simple one, with just a thin gold pattern on the edges, but the other one is really elaborate, and has wine and liquor glasses etched with the same pattern as the china. Of course, only two from the latter have survived World War 2 and several moves, but they are still amazing.
/as always, click to enlarge/
The second one is a real family heirloom: a tea set that once belonged to my great-great-grandmother, from my maternal grandfather's side, also known in family history as Grandma Schmitz. I wonder, how many cups and saucers there originally had been - we have 13 cups and 8 cups left. The slightly blackened silver teaspoons are from Grandma, too.
So this is the last of the china photographs. Next will be the dinner service(s), should we ever face the challenge to take them out for a good washing and set the table properly. One of them is a wonderfully simple one, with just a thin gold pattern on the edges, but the other one is really elaborate, and has wine and liquor glasses etched with the same pattern as the china. Of course, only two from the latter have survived World War 2 and several moves, but they are still amazing.
/as always, click to enlarge/
