Garden Bouquets and Transferware

I've been inspired by all the beautiful garden bouquets out here in Blogville. I wasn't able to get a lot of flower containers planted this year, but I do have several pots filled with the small mixed zinnias and trailing variegated petunias. I also have a large hydrangea out front that has given me quite a few pretty ever-changing blooms. 

I tried several different pitchers to display the flowers,

but finally came up with this white/cottage-y grouping. 

The larger pitcher is very heavy pottery and in the fois-bois French style.

(Literally meaning "false wood")

Then a small Staffordshire creamer and a small English cottage creamer.

Another item that I've been wanting to share is a "riser" that I've had for several years, but was in real need of a paint makeover. Someone had spray painted it aqua a while back, then later tried to paint it white. I'm sorry, it was really an ugly little piece, but I knew a good paint refresh would make it work. White paint is a miracle worker!

I've had this sweet Fiatelle vintage tablecloth 

for quite awhile though I don't think I've shared it.

Since it's a brown "grape" print I thought

 it would compliment the transferware patterns.

Last week or so when I changed up the Holiday Cupboard for Mid-Summer, I looked through my brown transferware dinner plates to find a few to use with the crockery and Majolica. I had two of these Myotts multicolored floral ones and thought how they are a little easier to incorporate in to a vignette since they have several colors in the glaze: red, yellow, green, and small strokes of blue. I always think of the brown for fall and then again in late winter, but this pattern seemed more summery and versatile.

Most of my transferware collection is a mish-mash of patterns.

I have a few pieces that are part of a set, 

but most are found one piece

at a time at fleas or vintage markets.

Since I haven't been out to scour the vintage fleas and markets I decided

to give Etsy and Ebay a try. Sure enough I found these on Ebay 

for a good price and bought 6 of them to make a complete set of 8.

You can see most of the rest of my brown transferware

back there behind the table in the china cupboard.

An ironstone tureen and a smaller English covered vegetable 

are here on more stacked transferware.

This mid-summer tabletop display 

is out here in the Garden Room where the light is always good,

 and a spot that's so easy to change up.

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