Schumann Wild Rose Table

I have been collecting Schumann's "Wild Rose" for forty-five years. I just love it. (I chose it as my "good" china pattern before I was married - then, less than one year later, it was discontinued by the manufacturer. Just my luck....soon the rose pattern was purchased by another manufacturer but the quality was not the same and was also later discontinued.)

Needless to say, I look for it whenever Pat and I go "antiquing." Replacements and eBay have been a goldmine.

Not to everyone's taste, the pattern is a combination of colorful and elegant.

The style of the cream soup is what "sold" me on the pattern - of course, this was the first piece to be discontinued. Yesterday, I got my last cream soup making a complete set of ten....forty-five years in the making.

Not quite pink, these "peach" colored goblets by Cristal D'Arques-Durand go well with "Wild Rose."

I have four different coffee pots in this pattern - this one is an individual size coffee pot (6 1/8" tall) holding three cups.

No one in the family smokes, but I had to have the matching cigarette holder and ashtray.

Where it came from:
Lace Place Mat - from Lentz Department Store (a really neat local store now out of business)
Dinnerware - "Wild Rose" by Schumann from anywhere I can find it
Glassware - "Rosaline Pink" by Cristal D'Arques-Durand from eBay and Replacements.com
Flatware - Pattern unknown from eBay several years ago
Napkin - Handmade by Pat

We will be joining the following Blog parties this week:
"Dishing It! & Digging It!" at Rustic & Refined this Sunday:  http://www.rustic-refined.com/
"Tablescape Thursday" at Between Naps on the Porch:  http://betweennapsontheporch.net/