Today we’re going to take our simple soup and sandwiches for lunch and turn it into something special by using Versailles blue glass soup bowls and cut crystal plates. Doesn’t that sound pretty? And more fun than soup in a mug and sandwiches on the first plate you find in the cupboard? I like mixing and matching glass from different eras and styles.
First let’s see how this looks as a full table. I tried it without a table cloth first.
It looks good with a tablecloth too, but the crystal sparkles on the plain wood. Here’s the same setting on a white tablecloth with a shadow flower design. I got the tablecloth from my Mom and it’s one of my favorites. Using the tablecloth makes this so elegant.
The glass plates underneath the soup bowls were in an earlier post. They are simple glass plates, not fancy, with a leaf band cutting. Bill of Affordable Accoutrements used similar plates as a middle layer to offset china and here it is as the main plate for the sandwich. The star of the show is the bouillon cup and liner saucer in Fostoria’s Versailles etched blue glass. Versailles is a fancy pattern – one look and you know this is good glass.
Let’s see how it looks together up close.
It looks good on the table with our silver plate.
The pretty blue bowl is our mystery piece from yesterday’s post. I wanted something that would pick up the blue bouillon set without overpowering the delicate azure. This blue is perfect.
The ceramic birds usually perch on the buffet; don’t they look like they are happy to be part of the action? These are from a good friend, Karen Hein of Karen’s Clay Studio. She is so imaginative and I love her work.
If you like this combination, please drop by my Facebook fan page at www.DepressionGlassFun.com or leave a comment here. I’m always glad to hear from you and see how you use your glass and china.
Thank you to Susan from Between Naps on the Porch and friends for this fun Tablescape Thursday.