Is this flower blanc de chine?

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  1. dgbjwc

    dgbjwc Well-Known Member

    Hi Folks! I'm not real familiar the term blanc de chine and wonder if it applies to this item. It stands a little over 4" tall and 6" across. I doubt that it has much age to it. Thanks for any guidance you can provide.
    Don
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  2. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    It's several flowers... Where is owned? I know what the ruffley one is...somewhere...
     
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  3. GaleriaGila

    GaleriaGila Hola, y'all!

    The top one is a rose with some leaves?
     
  4. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Top is a rose, side two are a narcissus ( the trumpet middle) and an anemone (the ruffly one with five petals) . Third one - that's face on in the first photo - looks like a single gardenia, but it's a bit imaginative, shall we say. The spare leaves aren't anything in particular.

    Might be Italian, they did a lot of these.
     
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  5. GaleriaGila

    GaleriaGila Hola, y'all!

    Capodiamante kinda thing? Did I even spell that right?
     
  6. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Capodimonte - so you were close! No, not that - and indeed, there's little that really is Capodimonte in truth. But these little flower pieces were and are widely made in Italy, and are often coloured.
     
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  7. GaleriaGila

    GaleriaGila Hola, y'all!

    Ahhhhh, gracias!
     
  8. clutteredcloset49

    clutteredcloset49 Well-Known Member

    I would say Blanc de chine
    Good possibility it is Made in Japan, and the little blue oval Japan sticker is gone. (Or the sticker of what ever company imported it). If indeed it is Japan missing a sticker, I would put the date to the 1960s-70s.
     
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  9. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    De nada, guapa! ;)

    It's a candle holder, by the way.
     
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  10. silverthwait

    silverthwait Well-Known Member

    Anemone! I knew you'd know, Bear! I recognized all of the flowers, but that name just would NOT come!
     
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  11. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    Thank you. :) I does like me blooms. Anemones are lovely.
     
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  12. dgbjwc

    dgbjwc Well-Known Member

    Thank you everyone! I should have known the narcissus at least - I was out planting daffodils yesterday - taking advantage of the record warm temperatures!
    I have never grown anemones - I'll have to give them a try.
    Don
     
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  13. Ownedbybear

    Ownedbybear Well-Known Member

    The trick with anemone corms is to soak them in lukewarm water before you plant them. They germinate better.
     
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