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Wall of China
Submitted by mpratt on Sat, 12/17/2011 - 10:34am
Wall of China
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I spent 10 minutes looking at all these very cool plates. What a fun way to display many types of plates. :) I like the one with the fish pattern. Would you mind telling us more about it? Thanks!
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Actually, would you mind identifying all of them? There are some I'm not familiar with, and some that are too small for me to see well enough with my middle-aged eyeballs. Many thanks!
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Nice! Perhaps you are too modest to call it "The Great Wall," but I spent several enjoyable minutes testing my knowledge of MCM dinneware by identifying plates. Far left, second from bottom: is that Golden Burst?
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I agree. I sat in front of my computer for a least 10 minutes looking at this lovely display. It is the GREAT wall of china.
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What a fabulous collection and such a great idea!!! My husband will probably kill me but now I know what to do with that one bare wall in the dining room.
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Wow, now I have a special purpose in life: to come as close as possible to recreating this. I'd never leave home. I'd just sit and admire my wall.
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Oh my gosh I love a good pun, especially when combined with serious design greatness! This is one of my favorite posts ever on this forum. THANK YOU! My family will see this today.
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I agree - favorite post on Modish! My husband would kill me as well... but what a fabulous idea!
Fran E.
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You've been busy, Mike! Very, very nice!!!
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This should be a quiz!
Wall of China Quiz
Ok, here's the quiz. Name whatever you know about the plate in these categories: manufacturer, shape name, pattern name, shape designer name, pattern designer name (if different). For each correct detail in the above categories, you'll be awarded one point. We'll assemble the answer key near the end of the month and declare a winner. I confess, I don't know all the details about these plates and a couple I may know nothing, but whatever can be verified will be awarded a point per detail. If you click on the smaller picture it will take you to a larger picture so you can see the details. First person to name a plate's details correctly gets the points. You don't need to know all the details about a plate to be awarded points. If you don't think someone's answer is correct, make your own guess.
Good luck!
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I'm glad you gave us 30 days!! :)) Thanks for putting this together.
2. Made by Westbend. There is a very popular bean pot with a warmer that matches it.
32. Metlox Poppytrail Free Form Pattern
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Rethink #2. The background is a drab green.
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After a fair amount of squinting at the screen (#8 is small!), here's my opening salvo of guesswork:
5. Universal: Raymor (Ben Seibel), Golden Burst design
6. Royal: Futura
shape (Arthur Kendricks), Blue Heaven design
7. Universal: Raymor
(Ben Seibel), Inca Sunurst design
8. Taylor Smith
Taylor: Cathay design
11 is also hard to see , but I’ll hazard it's Mar-Crest: Prestige shape
(maybe Arthur Kendricks?), Terrace design
[alternatively, it’s Royal: Futura shape (Arthur Kendricks),
Pueblo design (except that’s what I think #35 is)]
19. Stetson: Joan shape (maybe Alfred Dube?) the “cosmic orbs” design
21. Metlox: Poppytrail shape, Tropicana (Fish) design
23: Mar-Crest: Prestige shape (maybe Kendricks?), Patio design
25: Red Wing: Futura shape (Charles Murphy), Smart set
design
34. Royal: Futura shape (Arthur Kendricks), Santa Fe design
35. Royal: Futura shape (Arthur Kendricks), Pueblo design
36. Franciscan: Eclipse shape (George James), Starburst design
(Mary Brown)
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Click on the second image to make it larger!
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#11 is hard to see. You'll have to base your answers on the shape to get points.
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Actually, if you click on the small photo it becomes larger and then in a Firefox browser there is a magnifing glass that appears with a plus sign. Click again, and it gets super large and you can see everything in detail.
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This is tough!
3 is Franciscan, Cypress, Flair shape designed by Mary Jane Winans;
24 is Edwin Knowles Mobile, Criterion shape by Broomhall?
39 is Edwin Knowles Equation
41 is (I think) Homer Laughlin's Epicure in Dawn Pink, shape by Don Schreckengost
43 is Shenango's Well of the Sea - don't know shape name or shape/pattern designers
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#41 isn't that glossy
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Rats. Oh, well, I do have one additional piece of info, which is that the shape name on the "Well of the Sea" plate is Continental.
Those crazy stylized birds just above it look like they might have come from the same hand. Is there a connection? Hmmm...
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OK, I've got some more:
#15 & #27 are both Glidden - I'm going to guess the shape designer for both was Glidden Parker (although there's no guarantee, I suppose), but I don't know the name of either design at the moment. (Honestly, I was looking at Louisville Stoneware at first, because of the pineapple - they're very similar in some ways!)
#10 - Royal China for Sears' Harmony House, pattern is Starburst.
#18 & #35 I'm almost positive are Royal China, but that's as far as I got.
#23 - Royal China, Terrace
#28 - Royal China, Windblown (red)
#44 - Royal China for Harmony House - pattern is Caribbean, and according to Mike's earlier post, the designer was probably Gene Patterson
Wall of China Quiz Answers
This is a quick rendering of what I know about these items without a lot of looking up too much information. So if you have information to add, feel free and I will edit the table.
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I forgot all about coming back to see the results on this!
Here are some other details to add if you want --
3 - Franciscan Cypress - shape designer Mary Jane Winans
10 - Royal China for Harmony House - pattern is Starburst
17 - Syracuse, pattern is Nubian
24 - Edwin Knowles Mobile - shape is Criterion
32 - California Mobile - I think shape designer was Frank Irwin?
36 - Franciscan Starburst - shape designer George James, pattern designer Mary Brown
43 - Shenango Well of the Sea - shape name is Constellation
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What is #22- I think I need a whole set of that!! I'll wait, I'll wait. Just love it.
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I know what #22 is (I'll let Mike tell you), but the pattern only exists on plates and serving platters, so it would be difficult, if not impossible to create an entire set.
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you probably know most of them! I know about 4 and all were already named.
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Were these the first mix and match dinnerware?
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Number 11: Tickled Pink by Vernon Kilns?
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It makes me feel good to know that I'm not the only one who wants to cover walls with plates!