For me, having a dishware display in my hutch means I’m always ready for company.
For me, having a dishware display in my hutch means I’m always ready for company.I’m an out-of-sight-out-of-mind type. So I’m definitely into dishware display love — I love to my collections easy to reach and out to admire. I’m not much for closed cabinets, which always seem forbidding. That makes me an old-fashioned dish-dresser person. Nothing shows off dishes like the open shelves of a hutch and nothing can quite match that type of charm, whether the piece is in the kitchen or another room.
That’s true for many people, including William Yeoward who, with his partner Colin Orchard transformed a Victorian Gothic schoolhouse in the Cotswolds into a welcoming weekend retreat. The “fitted” (meaning built-in) dish dresser they installed in what was a doorway — now the kitchen and dining area [top] — is filled with 19th century Portuguese faience plates, a pair of 1914 large gray teapots, books, pitchers and vases with an impressive array of jugs on top.
A couple of New York antique dealers with a lavish, traditional apartment chose a simple pine hutch to show off their collection of English majolica dishes and pitchers. While old majolica isn’t food-safe, the highly colorful vegetable and plant motifs make it perfect to show off in a kitchen or sunroom.
Another pine beauty I came upon — stuffed with animal-motif china — includes a couple of cute Staffordshire hens in addition to other gaily striped, dotted and flowered pieces. For me, the best dressers have hooks aplenty for mugs to hang as well. I wish we could see what’s in the long, top drawer. Silver serving pieces?
In the Suffolk (England) kitchen of the late portrait photographer Angus McBean is a stupendous assemblage of white-ware including pieces by Wedgwood and Coalport. The larger pieces in that collection are stowed on a rather grand ebonized and parcel-gilt table with a shelf. Smaller pieces hang on a far plainer wall-mounted plate rack where the hooks display a collection of small pitchers and a lemon juicer along with a few mugs. I love the way the heart-shaped coeur à la crème molds are stuck up along with porcelain strainers and even a rolling pin up to the rafters. Great wall of china, for sure.
(Sources: WOI, AD)
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What incredible displays of some great dishware. I especially like the last picture, all the white and creams drew me in. From our home to yours Happy New Year! hugs ~lynne~
I LOVE all your displays AND of course ALL THOSE Lovely DISHES!!! I too keep mine handy for what I call “My Many Moods”… Thank you so much for sharing…
Happy New Year to you and yours,
Donna
Jane, Each photo is stunning! I’m definitely a dish-o-holic so I feel right at home in any of these gorgeous settings! They’re all so beautiful!
Nancy
Oh my — so many dishes! Love these pretty displays.
Oh, my! What a love place you have. Of course, I jealous of all the dishes. But the house – ooooo the house! I’m in love with it.
Happy New Year.
Oh my, it’s hard to decide which is my favorite. I wish I had the space for such a display.
Happy New Year. Hope to see you at Seasonal Sundays.
– The Tablescaper
OOh I love the displays.. We are thinking of adding on to our home and I want a built in piece like the one in the top photo.. It would be perfect. Love the inspiring displays.. Happy New Year to you and yours, may the new year bring lots of blessings!
Wonderful vignettes! My Welsh dresser is one of my favorite things. Thank you for sharing these lovely designs. Happy New Year! Cherry Kay
I am a dish/dinnerware addict and love to see hutches just bursting at the seams with beautiful dishes and tableware. Thanks for sharing these beautiful pictures.
These displays really speak to me! I just love the top example. Gorgeous. It is a real art to display treasure to be so lovely to the eye. Great and inspiring post!
Yvonne
Wonderful inspiration for displays. Thanks so much for sharing these ideas!
I love your posting. Such great dish storage.
Sheila @ raggedykingdom.blogspot.com
I’m getting that your dish display warms your heart and lifts your spirit like the Christmas lights do for me in my home…Only yours is something that works, year around! I love dishes…Especially bowls, platters, and pitchers…but I have to have glass or screened doors, as I am anti-dusting! 🙂 Thanks for sharing these great displays.
Grand post! I’m so not a dish afficianado but that first picture – oh thud! I heart those grey teapots on there. Loverly.
Now I do like white dishes and even more some of the white dishes with black text (sometimes) but the “pure lard” tray on the last picture has me weeping with laughing. What a pretty box for something so unappetizing!
Love all your collection. Just gorgeous . Hope you and yours have a Healthy and Happy New Year.
Hmmmm…. I don’t think we can have dishes piled up like that in California… one earthquake and goodbye FAB items… le sigh!
Those are right up my alley! So many good ideas for my new shelves, thank you for the inspiration. Hope you are having a wonderful new year!
Cheers,
Andrea
Love all dish display. I have never seen so many in one home.Just beautiful
Assume you mean the last one Vernice. Yes, it’s a lot (especially to clean). Just amazing what people amass over the years. And amazing that “more” looks so good.