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Tangerine Fiestaware. Apparently all that cheap china from China has lead in the glazes. Other imports, too. This new generation of Fiestaware is made in the US, and has lead-free glazes.
I hope they don't arrive in a million pieces.
Let's discuss DISHES!!!!

― Beth Parker, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

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We got these Noritake Colorwave dishes for the wedding. Not bad.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

The glaze looks nicer in person than in the photo - a little less bright.

― Hurting 2, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

All our wedding plates are knackered

― admrl, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

Earthenware chips so easily, porcelain is much sturdier.

I have a set of these in storage:
http://images.replacements.com/images/images5/china/R/royal_doulton_wildflowers_dinner_plate_P0000116178S0001T2.jpg

― tokyo rosemary, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

― gem, Saturday, 31 March 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

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This looks like it could be the album cover for an indie band with a one-syllable name.

― M.V., Sunday, 1 April 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

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― libcrypt, Sunday, 1 April 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

i love dinner plates! sadly i can't afford to buy any nice ones, mine are hand-me-downs. most are chipped and none of them match. i'm having mates around for dinner next week and i've been despairing over this very issue. to console myself i purchased some snazzy linen yesterday and i'm going to run up some placemats and napkins today.

This was me for decades! Nice placemats and napkins, mismatched plates. Not that I didn't love some of my thrift shop plates. And you can put together somewhat matching ones, at least all white. Sometimes you find nice old ironstone.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

Noritake-> My dad used to sell antique Noritake in Japan. He brought it from Europe to Tokyo where it's extremely popular.

― nathalie, Sunday, 1 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

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From the eBay antique Noritaki page!

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 13:25 (eighteen years ago)

Gracious living shall commence NOW.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

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― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

ooh orange plates!

my plates are all 'vintage' - some UK and some china (with 'underglaze design USA' they say) mmm lead glaze

those gold&white ones are really pretty - i have a weird weakness for that kind of thing, like i'm channeling my british great-grandma or something (who was rad)

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 1 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

gotta love fiestaware.

http://www.lesjones.com/www/images/posts/fiestaware-cabinet.jpg

― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

er, that's not my stuff. but i have always been fond of that stuff.

― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

beth, if you ever break any, this place has cheap seconds:

http://www.saveonseconds.com/servlet/Detail?no=69

that's the thing about fiestaware. they discontinue the colors, so if you want the same color you have to buy them on ebay or whatever.

― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

As our main dishes we just have these plain white square ones:

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I decided to go with that so we could have cool accent pieces like these dessert plates which I LOVE:

http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c287/expatrica/plates.jpg

I do love fiestaware though and that color looks gorgeous Beth!

― ENBB, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

i love the shape (and colours, obv) of fiestaware bowls - good bowls are so necessary and yet kind of a rare find. like good mugs.

― rrrobyn, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have this weird thing where, if possible, I'd rather eat out of a bowl than off a plate. So I agree, good bowls are a must!

― ENBB, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps that is your past life as the Duchess of Windsor's favorite Borzoi coming to the fore.
I have a weakness for the dainty teacups‚the gilt-edged super-thin porcelain that makes the lovely clicking sound when you return the cup to the saucer after having a sip of excellent Lapsang Souchong.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

Or Genghis Khan's favorite Mastiff.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Some day when I have more cupboard space, I want the whole set of Century Classic:

http://www.purecontemporary.com/images/pi_6502.jpg

― Laurel, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh! So cool and mod!

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Supposedly the old orange Fiestaware glaze was radioactive. The old wives say that shards of it in your garden will repel deer.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

apilco, esp. egg cups!

― youn, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

we've been eating off fiestaware since we got our set in 1992. NO WONDER I AM SO TROUBLED AND SLOW.

― Dimension 5ive, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Aprilco? Oh God, now I have to look THAT up. ILX, Y U SUCK ME IN ON MY ONLY DAY OFF WHEN I SHOULD BE CLEANING OUT THE GARDEN?????????????????? I tear myself away, with a great painful rip, like a band-aid being yanked off an unripe scab.
ENBB I love your cups and saucers! Antidepressant china!

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

Apilco. Duh. Must be the lead.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

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classic yum porcelain!

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

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― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

beware of old red fiestaware! uranium oxide!

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a4_099.html

― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Must have been the red, then, in the old wive's tale. Then my MIL to give me the wrong color single plate "to smash and spread in the garden," like I'm gonna SMASH an old Fiestaware plate, radiation-sickness hair-loss be damned.
We have plain white Brazilian-made soup bowls, probably leady. But they'll be fine with the new plates. I like white and orange. Creamsicle color combo.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

"gave me"
I started out writing "count on my MIL to give me..." and then stopped myself, thinking "don't be so fucking snarky," but obviously, I didn't cover my tracks.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Square plates? That seems really strange and exotic to me, although of course there's no good reason why a plate shouldn't be any shape at all, as long as it holds food.

― Oilyrags, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I love ilx 2.1
Everyone should switch to it, if you haven't already.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

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Here are two of my teapots kissing. I bought he curlicue-patterned one in a store in Boston Chinatown. It has an excellent strainer-insert. The other was a Christmas present from my son, with 4 cups.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

They don't exactly match my gilt-edge old-lady teacups.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Off to the garden.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 1 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I love plates too!

My every day stuff on the plate rack in the kitchen is Doulton's Carmina:

http://www.royaldoulton.com/website/media/images/product/pattern/ICARMI/ICARMI_5piece_v1_m56577569830556504.jpg

My smart stuff os Doulton Sarabande, which sadly is now discontinued and proving a bit of a bugger to replace whenever a piece gets broken at a riotous dinner party.

http://www.platemates.co.uk/live/pattern/img/rdsar.jpg

― C J, Monday, 2 April 2007 07:49 (eighteen years ago)

anyway i bought a nice teapot from muji.

http://www.muji.eu/images/products/m/4934761516356.jpg

and teacups (without handles)

http://www.muji.eu/images/products/m/4934761516448.jpg

― jed_, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

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:)

also nice mugs from habitat

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but would love the whole range of that, pretty pretty!

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― jed_, Sunday, 15 April 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

Haha someone lovely gifted me with that Muji tea set, plus 4 little sauce dishes (I think they were purchased as saucers for the teacups?), and a rectangular "cake" platter. The Western "high tea" standards imposed on a Japanese service.

― Laurel, Sunday, 15 April 2007 04:55 (eighteen years ago)

I have this weird thing where, if possible, I'd rather eat out of a bowl than off a plate. So I agree, good bowls are a must!

Yeah, I'm like that too. My requirements for dishware are these:

Look good and be replaceable with other pieces which, if not the same, are at least complimentary.
Go in the dishwasher without cracking or fading (so vintage is pretty much out)
Go in the microwave without heating up (seriously, is there anything worse than almost burning yourself on the dish when it comes out of the microwave, only to find that the food itself is not hot? How do I get round this?)

None of my dishes fulfil these criteria. Some are lovely to look at, though, like these:

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Which are Vista Alegre and are great, but I've had them for ten years and use them every day and they are starting to break and disintegrate now.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer to eat out of bowls whenever possible, too. Neat.

I have a set of dishes with pilgrims on them that my grandmother gave me about 10 years ago:

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We registered for dishes when we got married but didn't get any of them and just don't seem to care enough to actually pursue matching dinner wear. I am also really attached to those stupid pilgrim plates. I read somewhere that Fingerhut sold them and I'll bet that's where my grandmother got them.

― Jenny, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I've never found a china pattern I liked that included both cereal bowls and soup/pasta bowls. All the more reason to mix and match, I guess.

― Laurel, Sunday, 15 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Here's all my random crap dishes and nice dishes piled together on the dresser. Note the love of non-matching mugs, many of them souvenirs from holidays.

Of course, the image probably won't work.

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― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Or will be so wee as to be unviewable.

Poxy Picasaweb.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

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Yes? No?

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yes! Magic.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

The mania continues. To the Tangerine plates I have added sunflower salad/dessert plates:

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― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

and also jumbo mugs in turquoise, rose,
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― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

sunflower and tangerine, which I must have bought THE LAST ONE IN THE WORLD because it's no longer on Amazon. I hold the sunflower cup in my hands and lap cappuccino out of it like a grateful puppy. Ahhh.
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― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

There's so much clutter and visual noise in our house—the china can't have a pattern. I'd get overstimulated.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

Though those cups above your fruit (abbondanza!), Trish, are very enticing.

― Beth Parker, Sunday, 15 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

They are part of my lovely Vista Alegre ware and I fully expect them to be dashed on the floor at any moment by my clumsy husband and housemates.

I don't think I'll take down the Edwardian hand-decorated sandwich set I bought on eBay until I'm safely divorced, living with a female "companion" and have put socks on all my cats.

― accentmonkey, Sunday, 15 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I think socks are going to make them even clumsier. Can you imagine them jumping onto a polished table or sideboard or counter and falling off the other side, scrabbling for purchase all the way? Damn.

― Laurel, Sunday, 15 April 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to put socks on every cat I know!

― Beth Parker, Monday, 16 April 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome for roffles, bad for china.

― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

Thus - the need for china cabinets.

― aimurchie, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I have have an almost-complete set of nu-Fiestaware, and I love it. I do lust after the pitchers:

http://aiany.org/eOCULUS/2006/images/0502/StreamlinedDesign.jpg

― molly mummenschanz, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I plan to buy fiestaware soon! I love the colors! Maybe when our new kitchen is finished. . .right now our dishes are a rag-tag collection from our single lives that looks like we're college students. I also have china but that almost never gets used.

― Ms Misery, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I have a green Fiesta ware jug that I bought in a market here for €20. I love it so. I don't like their cups, though. The handles are too small.

When I was in town today, this thread made me look at china patterns. Man, some of them are beautiful. I especially love Villeroy and Boch. But I am not paying €30 for a cup. Also I don't like their wave range. They're just ugly.

― accentmonkey, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Beth, I love your mugs!

― youn, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

I went to the Restaurant Supply Warehouse and set myself up w/ some handsome, indestructible Greek diner plates, side dishes, cups & saucers, all embellished with a Greek key pattern. 6 whole sets for $16. Score.

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:51 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

I want a set of 12 each of

Dinner plates
Salad plates
Soup bowls

in really heavy diner-style stoneware. Does anybody know where I can find this stuff for cheap?

― turkey in the straw (x2) (remy bean), Wednesday, 9 November 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago)

We have an assortment of fiestaware at our house. They are just fine to eat off or drink from, except I prefer bigger, more cylindrical mugs than the mid-sized ones that come with a regular place setting. I have a hard time working up a good froth over dishes. Sorry.

― Aimless, Wednesday, 9 November 2011 03:01 (thirteen years ago)

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