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A cocktail makes a great complement to a special meal at table.

My second option for the Macro Mondays group "Wear and Tear"

I present to you the content of our vintage cupboard with in it some of the tableware I kept from my Mum and granny. The white and blue service I personally love the most and use them for special occasions (when it comes to our daily coffee and tea we prefer to drink from bigger mugs that not necessarily match with each other ). The brown one is from England, and we use the correspondent plates that are kept in another part of the cupboard on a day to day basis. On top, in front to the left two valuable sets - a set of fine China Paragon teacups appointed to H.M. the queen and H.M. queen mary in pink and baby blue. Love them! To the far left a pair of cups with golden elements and dark blue from a German porcelain manufacturer (I mean to sell them one day). In the bottom some more collector's items and seasonal stuff. I have more whole sets, but they are stashed away in boxes.

A little shop in Yanaka Ginza that sells bowls, plates and cups. We were able to find some sake cups we liked.

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"Mark is", Minatomirai, Yokohama

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kichijoji tokyo

Very nice vintage (the forties of the 20th century) Japanese bowl of "Mountain Wood-land" series by Nasco brand.

This bowl was used in Grimm TV series and I've got it from a massive asset sale held after the last season of this show.

Victorian period Shropshire UK

HMM

HCS!

that I made with corks by myself as a token of the wines I tasted.

Macro Monday - tableware

Festive Spoon :-)

HMM!

stack of four serrated spoons

Soup spoon with spiral reflection and blue and gold shadows.

This stainless steel soup spoon is placed on a textured cream tablecloth. The underside of the spoon reflects a spiral pattern woven into the texture of the fabric.

Two light sources, gold behind and white in front of the subject create the two shadows, one gold one blue.

I needed something crazy for the tableware challenge. Oh yeah, how about a print! Stacked using Helicon Focus from 57 images acquired with in-camera focus bracketing.

A mustard pot I turned in yew, part of a set with salt and pepper.

Lens Cimko M series 28mm Macro F2.8 at F11

set tableware at the castle of Amerongen, the Netherlands

From the Re-ment Collection, Dream Tableware, 2005, #8 Edo Cut Glass.

Hubby and I watched this episode of Begin Japanology about cut glass and I realized I had to get this set before it was impossible to find!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRU0SY32urE

I waited for a good price because this one can go high.

20251110_2296_R62-45 Tableware

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GROUP: MACRO MONDAYS

THEME: TABLEWARE

SUBJECT: FORKS

(just a little over 2" horizontally)

HAPPY NEW WEEK, EVERYONE!

Tonight Pleasure.

It's sake of dry taste in a beautiful container.

Japanese chopsticks

a stack of plates

Tableware (china cup handles)

For Macro Mondays Dec 4 theme "Tableware"

I lived in the UK and I couldn't resist bringing back some glasses from the Ravenhead Siesta collection.

Royal Tableware, glazed pottery, 8th-7th century BC, Nimrud, Iraq. From the exhibition Nineveh (in present Iraq) at the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO) in Leiden NL.

More of this nineveh exhibition at:

johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2018/01/nineveh.html

Spoon resting on an iphone screen, reflecting the image displayed on the screen. As a further nod to the "Tableware" theme, the image is a semi-abstract photo of a stack of blue and white plates. Width of the spoon is 34mm. HMM!

Macro Mondays - Tableware