Easter Table With Vintage China

Easter is right around the corner, and whether you’re hosting or guesting, we always like to share a pretty spring table a few weeks ahead of time. Today I decided to showcase my new-to-me white and gold Limoges china paired with blue willow, blue gingham, and pale pink Portugal ceramic plates.

If you follow us on Facebook then you might have seen my post about the Limoges. One of my favorite friends, Danielle, found them at a local antique store and texted me a photo saying, “Isn’t this your married monogram?” (My husband’s first name starts with R although he goes by his middle name, so you can tell she’s a good friend because she knows and remembers all of those details!)

It is a huge set: 8 place settings plus serving pieces.

I didn’t run right out and buy it; I figured that since the monogram limits the potential buyers I could wait a bit and think about whether or not I really needed it. I thought the price was incredible so that wasn’t it–really just that I’ve been content living in a downsized house these past few years and I didn’t want to fill my china cabinet (and basement, and attic) back up again.

Then I came to my senses and realized that these were, quite literally, meant for me. So I ran over to the shop and fortunately, they were still waiting patiently for me to arrive.

Aren’t they perfect?

I’m looking forward to having my dining table back to I can put all eight place settings out. It’s currently in storage in Kansas. With our son’s help, my husband packed up his entire apartment in January and put everything in storage; he’s deployed right now and there’s no sense paying for two homes when he’s not living in his.

The plan at this point is that he’ll move all of his/our things from KS back to NC in the summer and then we’ll move together to our next assignment. Just to keep things interesting, we don’t know where that next assignment is yet. I have learned to roll with it after twenty four years of marriage, but that doesn’t mean I’m not nibbling a few fingernails while I wait and wonder!

My daughter’s spring break is between Palm Sunday and Easter this year so there’s a good chance we won’t be home for Easter dinner this year. If we were, I’d probably break out the white tablecloth and go a little fancier (no seagrass placemats, for example). But I like the fact that the china can work with fancy and formal as well as casual and cheerful table settings.

I can tell you from experience that coffee tastes much better in one of these teacups!

We have tons of Easter tables and recipes from over the years; you can see them all {here}.

I’ll share all of my sources below; I even linked to a few similar Limoges sets on eBay but I won’t lie, shipping is a killer for such fragile pieces of porcelain.  Your best bet (if you don’t inherit some!) is to shop locally until you hit the jackpot one day. Or come visit me in NC because we always have great finds at our thrift shops and antique stores.

Thanks for stopping by~

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