My Chinoiserie Find/The Price is Right

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 My breakfast room is filled with many blue and white treasures. This is a favorite vignette of mine. The little bar cart holds a vintage Mottahedeh Vista Alegre Epergne. 

There is also a vintage Italian monkey obelisk, Amanda Lindroth wicker Birken bags, and vintage Mottahedeh child's china. I would love to know more about the monkey obelisk - I have never seen anything like it anywhere.

My High/Low Mottahedeh Chinoiserie Epergne

My Etsy Find for $39

Above, a Rare Mottahedeh Blanc de Chine Vista Alegre Chinoiserie Epergne that I got on Etsy for $39. Below, a Rare Mottahedeh Blanc de Chine Vista Alegre Chinoiserie Epergne currently up for auction on eBay - current price is $455. Don't you just love Etsy?

Bidding is underway on eBay - currently $350

From My Chinoiserie Home-Setting the Chinoiserie Breakfast Table

I have set the breakfast bar with vintage Mottahedeh china, vintage foo dogs, vintage blanc de Chine, and vintage blue and white Chinese porcelain from my collection, a white topiary pagoda from HomeGoods, a piece of art from Annechovie, bamboo flatware, and blue and white Chinoiserie placemats "Lightfoot House" from the Williamsburg Collection.

Chinoiserie Chic Cheap

Above is a Mottahedeh epergne that retails for $7500 for the larger, $6100 for the smaller. Below is my Etsy antique/vintage find for $39 that is the same size as the smaller one. If you find any budget friendly versions of higher priced Chinoiserie items, new or old, I would love to include them as a regular feature on Chinoiserie Chic. Please email me.

Happy Thanksgiving

A Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I hope your Thanksgiving table will include a touch of Chinoiserie. Here for inspiration is Joe Nye's antique Chinoiserie pedestal table set with Mottahedeh Blue Canton and Juliska bamboo flatware.

Two New Thrift Store Finds

Two great new pieces for my blue and white collection I found at my favorite thrift store. Front left is a Mottahedeh Delft bulb pot for $5 and front center is a Tiffany & Co. "Tiffany Delft" cachepot dated 1996 for $12. Oh the joys of August in DC when everyone is away on vacation and I snag all the goodies!

The Chinoiserie Picnic

I am officially in love with these. My favorite manufacturer of Chinoiserie china Mottahedeh has come out with these incredible Chinoiserie tinware picnic sets. At $45.00 for 4 plates, these are absolutely fabulous for the most chic picnic, the boat, or for al fresco dining.

Setting the Chinoiserie Table-China Patterns

Today we take a look at my favorite Chinoiserie china patterns. I know that the conventional wisdom is to choose a white plate with a simple band so you won't tire of it. I would be tired of that the day I got it. My wedding china is Wedgwood Chinese Tigers and I still love it. I would no more have simple white china than I would have white walls in my home. To me both show an absence of style and imagination. Buy what you love for your home and you will never go wrong. Above is the classic Royal Crown Derby Old Imari.

Home, James! Chinatown-I got this for my birthday this year

Villeroy & Boch Golden Garden

Lenox China Morning Blossom-another china pattern I own

Pickard Charlotte Moss Elsie

Pickard Charlotte Moss Nancy

Isis Ceramics Palladian

Isis Ceramics Sporting Monkeys

Mottahedeh Blue Dragon

Mottahedeh Red Dragon

Mottahedeh Blue Canton

Mottahedeh Chelsea Bird

Mottahedeh Ching Garden

Mottahedeh Imperial Blue

Mottahedeh Mandarin Bouquet

Wedgwood Chinese Tigers-my wedding china pattern

Wedgwood Jasper Conran Chinoiserie

Ralph Lauren Red Pagoda

Kmart I Am So Sorry

My Kmart tray table finally arrived yesterday after my wimpy UPS man took two weeks to get it off his truck because of the snow we've had. But I have to say that my recent purchases from JCPenney and Kmart have been epiphanies. I take back having never set foot in your stores or gone to your websites. The tray table was beautifully packaged, took 5 minutes to put together, and is great. It is heavy, well made, elegant, and looks ten times more expensive than its $69.99 with free shipping. I have set it up in my sun room for tea and scones tomorrow morning using my daughter's childhood china by Mottahedeh. The ginger jar next to it I bought yesterday at HomeGoods for $20. Cute, eh? (A little Canadian Olympics lingo.) BTW, they have restocked the tray table and it is again available. Click on the photo to enlarge it.