Concord Rose Dinnerware Syracuse China

Think blue roses and you have this contemporary dinnerware.   It’s durable and has a pretty design of long stemmed blue roses.

Concord Rose Sugar Bowl

But it needs to be dressed up, don’t you think?  How about adding a dash of blue?  Cobalt blue depression glass adds that spot of color we need.  This Moderntone cobalt blue depression glass sherbet looks great on the plate and we’ll have fun using this for our fruit salad.

Concord Rose and Moderntone

Let’s take a closer look.  I like this combination.  It changes my plain table from boring to fabulous.

Moderntone Blue Sherbet Concord Rose Plate

Concord Rose with Moderntone

The glasses were using are interesting.  When we think of Anchor Hocking we think of quality glass for daily use, not cut or fancy, but sturdy and well made.  I found a set of eight tumblers marked Anchor Hocking at the flea market that have a fuchsia cutting.  Unusual.

Anchor Hocking Cut Tumbler

It’s hard to see the cutting and it’s worth seeing.

Anchor Hocking Fuchsia Cut Tumbler

I hope you enjoyed seeing a different sort of table today.  This time I combined Concord Rose dinnerware from Syracuse China, Moderntone blue depression glass sherbets, fuchsia cut tumblers from Anchor Hocking and a Fostoria Navarre etched candle holder.

Let me know how you mix depression glass in  your home.  You are welcome to post photos of your glass on our Facebook page at www.DepressionGlassFun.com.

Buying information:  All glass and china is available at our online store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass at www.CatladykatesGlass.com.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend.

Fostoria Glass June Etched Topaz Yellow 2-Handled Bowl

We all like to buy memorable wedding gifts, something to help the new couple build their lives together.  But it’s hard to do.  Vintage glass is a perfect way to add a connection to the past, give something unique that the couple can treasure.

When you give vintage glass you give instant connection to the past that give newlyweds a foundation to establish their own family traditions.  The piece shown here is from Fostoria Glass.  This is their June etched small 2-handled bowl that is perfect to display.  But it’s even better for the new couple to use this for holidays and special meals with friends.

Fostoria made June in this luscious topaz yellow that is soft and blends well – no harsh color here.  June etch is on the elegant Fairfax shapes in medium blue, pink and crystal.  It is beautiful in any color and crystal – I like the yellow the best for its cheerful sunny disposition.

This particular bowl is $50, a good price point for wedding or shower gifts.  It’s a perfect way to introduce a special couple to this gorgeous vintage glass.

Buying information:  June bowl and more pieces are in our online store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.

Hocking Colonial Knife & Fork Clear Depression Glass Wine

We’ve looked at a lot of colored glass – blue, pink, green depression and elegant etched Fostoria – and I thought it would be a fun change to see some clear depression glass.

One conundrum is what to call this stuff.  My depression glass reference books by Gene Florence call colorless glass “crystal” but as a dealer I found that confused my customers.  Some see the word “crystal” and visualize the gorgeous quality lead crystal.  Ummm, nope, sorry.  This is depression glass so it’s decent quality but very far from high end lead crystal.  (Let’s not even talk about the confusion with the clear Waterford Waffle pattern.)

So I’ve taken to calling it “clear”.  This is what Replacements.com does too so I’m in good company.

The small stem you see here is the Colonial pattern from Hocking Glass.  It’s typical depression glass with a molded pattern and ordinary glass.  You may recognize the nickname Knife and Fork, which refers to the ridged design between the scallops.  Hocking made this pattern in green and pink, some yellow, some opaque white, a little blue and of course in clear.

The clear is not as enticing as the colored glass but it has its own charm.  For one thing it plays well with other colors and helps if you want to merge multiple colors.  Putting a few pieces of clear along with green and pink really helps.  For another the clear is much less expensive – true for almost all patterns – and you can add a few pieces to use every day without breaking the bank.  For another, colored depression stemware is getting harder to find.  Naturally stemware and tumblers took a beating over the past 80 years so when you can find clear stems to augment your depression set, go for it.

Buying information:  All glass shown is available at Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.

Old Cafe Pink Depression Glass Candy Dish

Welcome to this week’s Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.  Thank you for visiting me.

Today we have pink depression glass stealing the show.  This is the two-handled dish for candy or mints in Hocking’s Old Cafe pattern.  Old Cafe is a small pattern with only a few dinnerware pieces but several attractive accessory items like this candy plate, a deeper candy bowl with lid, an oval olive dish and a vase.

You’ve probably seen look-a-likes for the vase, not exactly repros but more an extended production of this for the floral market.  The design is a wide band between two narrower bands and all the bands are smooth on the inside and rounded on the outside.

Hocking made this depression glassware pattern in pink and clear and it is surprisingly attractive.  You wouldn’t think such a simple design would be so effective but like most of the geometric designed depression patterns Old Cafe has little extras.  You can see one on this candy dish.  The ribs that make up the pattern come together on the base to make a ridged bottom.  It looks great.

Buying information:  We have this piece and several others in our store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass at www.CatladykatesGlass.com.

Princess Green Depression Glass 9 Deep Hat Bowl

Since St. Patrick’s Day is right around the corner so let’s look at a few green items.  This is one of my favorite green depression glass patterns, Princess by Hocking Glass.  I have a large selection in pink but have to admit I prefer green to the pink.  Hocking’s green in this pattern is just a tad lighter color, a little fresher than the usual green.

I like the way the scroll designs on this pattern look like curtains sweeping away on a stage.  It makes me feel like I’m at the theater waiting for the curtain to go up and the play to begin.

Most of the Princess pieces are octagonal, really squares with the corners cut off, and this bowl is round at the top and octagonal at the base.  It is called the 9 inch deep hat-shaped bowl.  It is 9 inches across and almost 4 inches deep and it looks deeper than it is.  A bowl of this style would be great for a pasta salad, especially one with some green peppers or green rotini in it

If you like Princess depression glass be sure to check out our store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend.

Fostoria Glass Chintz Etched Crystal

Had you thought of using an all-crystal table?  We usually think of china for plates and glass for goblets, but the elegant and depression glass makers produced full lines of dinnerware.  I’m only showing a few pieces from our extensive selection of this pattern.   Fashions change and maybe next time I’ll put this on the larger table to show more pieces.  It makes a dramatic and unusual table to enjoy with friends.

Here is a close up of the dinner plate so you can see what it looks like.

Fostoria Glass Chintz Etched Crystal Dinner Plate

I have to confess that I tried something different to get a good photograph.  Our home is open and the dining room has only one wall to act as a resting point for your eyes.  That’s great for living but challenging to photograph so I put three minimal place settings on the buffet against the one wall.  That didn’t give me room to include the console bowls, salad bowls, sherbets, bread and butter plates, nappies.  You can really have a full tableware set of this pretty glass.

Fostoria Glass Chintz Etched Crystal Duo Candleholder

I especially like the the candleholders.  Fostoria used the Baroque blank, which is the one with molded fleur de lis to etch most pieces of Chintz.  These U-shaped candleholders are from a different line and they make a nice contrast.  The green vase is another choice piece by artist Dave Eickholt.

Fostoria Glass Chintz Etched Crystal Dinner Table

Here is the vase a little clearer.  Dave makes his own glazes of course and this is one of his specialties.

Dave Eickholt Green Crystalline Glazed Porcelain Vase

I like the vase with the modern-looking candleholders, don’t you?

Fostoria Glass Chintz Candleholders & Dave Eickholt Green Vase

Thank you for visiting and come back again next Thursday!

Buying information:  All glass shown is from Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend.

Art pottery by Dave Eickholt is available at Dave’s online store at Etsy.

Fostoria Glass Versailles Etched Blue Bouillon Bowl

Is blue your favorite color?  If it is you know that it is not all that common in glass, especially beautiful etched glassware like this bouillon bowl from Fostoria.  I like this shade better than cobalt blue and it looks grand with the etching and clear handles.

Fostoria Glass made Versailles from 1928 to 1944 in this lovely blue, a gorgeous green, pretty amber and pink.  I have all three colors in my store Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass since this is one of the patterns I try to keep in stock, but I can’t make up my mind whether the blue or the green is prettier.  And the amber is nice too….

Are you wondering what a bouillon cup is?  What, you mean you don’t have a separate piece to serve clear soup as an appetizer?  You use the cream soup bowl for both your Vichyssoise and your broth?  Or even (gasp!) you use the same bowl for any kind of soup or salad or cereal because you only have a couple size bowls?  What is this world coming to?

Back in the day (before dishwashers but when people still had “help”) people had separate dishes for almost everything.  My reference book for Versailles shows this bouillon bowl, the larger cream soup which is nearly the size we would use today but with handles, finger bowl, soup bowl, cereal bowl and fruit bowl.  Needless to say the bouillon is one of the less common pieces.  I think it would be fun to serve dinner with all the right pieces arranged just so.

Fostoria Glass Baroque Azure Blue Vase

This week’s Tablescape Thursday post featured Moderntone cobalt blue depression glass.  Today we’ll look at a different style and color, azure blue elegant glass from Fostoria.

This piece is the winged vase in Fostoria Baroque glassware.  Some pieces in Baroque pattern have fleur de lis molded shapes around the edges and others have these striking curled wings.  Candle holders and comports have the wings turned into stems, very attractive and unmistakable.

Fostoria made Baroque in this light azure blue and gold tint light topaz colors plus crystal.  Earlier, in the 1920s and 30s Fostoria made darker blue glass, not cobalt but a medium royal blue color, and used it for etches like Royal and Vesper.  Later patterns, Baroque and Fairfax, used this lighter, almost sky blue shade.

Azure blue is easy on the eyes and a friendly color that works well with others.  Come try it out at Catladykate’s Elegant and Depression Glass.  It’s like antiquing with your best friend!

Fostoria Glass Grape Brocade Etched Orchid Candleholder

Welcome to this week’s Pink Saturday hosted by Beverly of How Sweet the Sound.  Thank you for finding me.

This week I’m stretching “pink” to include Fostoria’s Orchid color which is a purply pink color.  Fostoria made a few patterns in this color and it was either not a good seller or was too costly to produce because they only made Orchid a few years.

The etch here looks mottled, doesn’t it?  In person the design itself is plain glass and the mottled looking background is actually raised above the surface.  It is very different from normal plate etchings and has a surface texture that feels good to touch.  You are seeing a brocade etch.

The etch is called Grape.  This isn’t a terribly imaginative name – nothing so fanciful as Bordeaux or Trailing Arbor or anything that took some thought to come up with – but it perfectly describes the pattern.  This has grape leaves and grape bunches and it really looks like brocade.

Other companies besides Fostoria made brocade etches but theirs are among the best known.  This is the rolled rim candle holder with the Grape brocade etch and we have it in stock.  Previously I’ve had the same candleholder in green and a gorgeous blue comport.   I like the brocade etches and hope you do too.

Buying information: Cat Lady Kate’s Elegant and Depression Glass where shopping is like antiquing with your best friend.

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Table for Two

Today we’re having lunch for two and enjoying the first daffodils of the year.  Don’t the flowers add a touch of spring?  Daffodils are my favorite but they won’t bloom outdoors here until April.

Dave Eickholt Crystalline Glaze Green & Blue Vases

It’s sunny outside – blue skies and a warm breeze (warmish anyway) – so let’s celebrate a good day for blue.  We have blue glass plates, sherbets, cups and saucers and a deep blue crystalline glaze vase from artist Dave Eickholt.  The cheerful yellow flowers look great in Dave’s green art vase.

Moderntone Blue Depression Glass Setting

Moderntone is depression glass. Hazel Atlas made this from 1934 to 1942 in cobalt blue and some amethyst purple and that’s the color people collect the most. They knew they had a good thing going and re-issued this pattern in the early 1950s in a white glass they called Platonite that had overlays of bright colors. I like the transparent blue the best. Doesn’t it look good on the white hand-crocheted doily tablecloth?

Moderntone Depression Glass Table

I try to keep Moderntone in stock in our store Vintage Elegant Depression Glass by Catladykate and at the moment we have the pieces shown in the photo.  Here is a close up of the sherbet so you can see it better.

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Sherbet

Can you see the art deco influence here with the round and square shapes mixed?

Moderntone Cobalt Blue Depression Glass Sugar

I love flowers so when I saw the daffodils grocery shopping it was easy to pick a bunch.  The yellow is pretty bright with the cobalt blue,  I think next time we decide to show off blue I’ll get pink flowers or pick soft apricot colored pansies.

The smaller vase is a great combination of cooler navy colors in a crystalline glaze, also by noted artist Dave Eickholt.   It’s fun to mix these art pieces with my depression glass – quite a contrast that works.  The dark blue vase helps tone down the bright flowers and you can see how well it melds with the green vase and the cobalt glass.

Dave Eickholt Blue Crystalline Glaze Vase

Thanks for visiting.

Buying Guide: Moderntone cobalt blue depression glass is available at Catladykate – it’s like antiquing with  your best friend.

Crystalline glazed pottery is available at Dave Eickholt’s shop.