Over here in France a standard breakfast or “petite déjeuner” is a bowl, yes a bowl, full of café au lait or hot chocolate, or roasted chicoree and milk. They use a bowl so they can easily dip their croissants or baguettes into the brew. Coffee cups are just to small to adroitly make this manoever. There are literally thousands of different motifs an gosh knows how many manufacturers. No doubt they have been used for thousands and thousands of breakfasts over their long lives and now perhaps if you don’t plan to put them into service they are ready for retirement on a nice comfy display shelf in your kitchen or dining room. This beautiful collection of 5 bowls in tones of red and white. These bowls have seen quite a few “petite dejeuners” since the 1930s/1960′s but they are still very decorative if not practical. A Message To Our Friends. It has a been encore ” a moment” since I updated followers of green_stockings, lovers of everything FRENCH, bon vivants avec le bon goût, sensibilities that draw kindred spirits together. We are once again Moving. Not out of France, Mais Non jamais, rather to our house in the vines… The one we have been working on for so long. It is there we belong, surrounded by rural beauty and the peacefulness of nature. Where kids can run naked through the pastures and forests without offending anyone and I can once again hang my laundry to dry on a line outside where it can blow dry in the wind and smell divine. You know I have 6 boys don’t you? The bucolic beauty of the “blé” golden wheat, the gorgeous “grappes”grapes, the “cocquelicot” red poppies and “fleur sauvage” wild flowers await us all. Then the calm of an untraveled road sauf pour the “facteur” postman, and pulling veggies up from our own “potager” jardin for the freshest meals once again is reassuring. All in time to finish out the childrens primary school years in small stone country “ecole” school with our daily “pain” delivered into our mailbox when it’s too hot to bake… We can’t wait. Even the “etoiles” stars perform their theater nightly illuminating the heavens with a starry night fête we thrill to see. Because we’ll once again be living Outside we’ll have the chance to pull all the garden furniture out onto the lawns (I think I easily have 300 chairs) and all my eclectic collection of colorful linens for dressing tabletops and seat cushions à la bohemians that we truly are. So we’ll be a bit like vagabonds living out of our essential napsacs at first… Then gradually pulling more of the household over as we decide what will go where the best. It’s a bit of a conundrum. Yes I’ve got this four storied bourgeois house in ville piled high. It reminds me of the Jenga game where you pull out a piece and risk to have the whole thing tumble. I might find lost and nearly forgotten treasures, discover small furried friends distantly related to Mickey Mouse in our house then jump with a start to see those relatives of Charlotte about. I try to accept them as allies in our fight against bugs but all those eyes.. I just can’t figure out which two to look at. All in all I”m just so happy to be returning to our country home, our humble chateau, our baby’s “berceau cradle of some years ago. “Alors” Well Then I’ll be “fairing le triage” sorting out objects to sell so keep watching for surprises. I originally created my bowl sets rather randomly, based on a color or a motif. I tried to put in at least 2 special bowls in each set. Some colors are much harder to come across. You will notice I don’t have any white sets for example and only a few pink and purple, small childrens bowls are almost un heard of. These bowls can be used for all sorts of things: hors d’ouvres, candy display, flower bouquets etc. If you see bowls among my sets that you would rather have feel free to contact me and I will work with you to create the collection you want. I can regroup my sets afterwords. The item “5 Red & WHITE Antique Vintage FRENCH café au lait Cereal BOWLS DIGOIN Flowers” is in sale since Friday, March 29, 2019. This item is in the category “Pottery & Glass\Pottery & China\Art Pottery\European Pottery\French”. The seller is “green_stockings” and is located in Aubiac. This item can be shipped to North, South, or Latin America, all countries in Europe, all countries in continental Asia, Australia.
- country of origin: France
- Style: French Country
- Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
- Color: Red
- Main Color: red white
- condition: used
- Material: ceramic
- Object Type: Bowl