TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 27, 2003 03:39:53 PM
Okay, this time I'm not looking for help identifying a manufacturer or a pattern - I'll save that for later on a few other great finds --  .
I can't find that, either, despite numerous Internet searched and countless books of marks, etc.
Here I'm looking for some guidance on what to call this little bowl. I can describe the colorful transfer image, that it's porcelain, rimmed in bright gold, etc., etc.
Does anyone have a suggestion or two on what the use of this bowl/cup/thingy would be? Someone suggested it could be a rice bowl - but it's made in France and has no handle - or I would call it a demitasse cup. So I know it's not that. I've sold them before...
It measures 3.5 inches in diameter at the mouth and the base is just 1.75 inches in diameter. It stands 2 inches tall.
Any suggestions would make my night as I\'d like to get this listed and let the world tell me what it's worth.
Thanks for your consideration.
Wayne
Trying to Make a Difference - One Satisfied Customer at a Time....
[ edited by TheFamilyBiz on Jul 27, 2003 03:48 PM ]
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KarenMx
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posted on July 27, 2003 03:47:03 PM
It is NOT a demitasse cup; they're smaller than this and generally have handles and saucers--like a tiny coffee cup.
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jensmome
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posted on July 27, 2003 04:05:00 PM
It could be an open salt or a finger bowl.
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neglus
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posted on July 27, 2003 04:08:24 PM
I have some VERY old cups (pre Revolutionary) that have no handles. I got them from my grandmother and she told me that they date to a time before cups had handles and that people (even genteel people) used to pour their tea/coffee into the saucer to cool and drink from that.
My husband grew up in Switzerland in a house his family has lived in FOREVER (built 1703) and they drank coffee from bowl like thingies with NO HANDLES.
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stopwhining
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posted on July 27, 2003 04:40:24 PM
RICE BOWL
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tomwiii
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posted on July 27, 2003 04:43:07 PM
OBVIOUSLY...
an S-car-GO bowl!
OBVIOUSLY!
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 27, 2003 05:26:31 PM
Thanks for your thoughts, folks. I do appreciate your take on this.
I think it might be too big for a master salt. Finger bowl could be - but a bit deep for that...
What would you call the detail at the bottom - a foot or pedestal - ie. a footed xyz...?
Wayne
Trying to Make a Difference - One Satisfied Customer at a Time....
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stopwhining
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posted on July 27, 2003 05:28:38 PM
a bunch of french-------------closet rice eaters!!!!!
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 27, 2003 05:30:29 PM
Okay, SW, I'll include some possibility of it being a French Rice Bowl" as well as the other possibilities.
I appreciate your persistence.
Wayne
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tomwiii
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posted on July 27, 2003 06:28:29 PM
I think he's correct! After the fall of Dien Bien Phu in 1953, Gen Giap forced the defeated French troops to eat RICE, inspiring the famous, oft-quoted:
"Let them eat rice!"
As Ralphie says: "Ya learn something new everyday!"
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 27, 2003 06:36:27 PM
Do you think he was ripping off Marie Antionette's even more famous line:
"Let them eat CAKE!"
And I know this aint no "Cake Bowl"...
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tomwiii
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posted on July 27, 2003 06:41:42 PM
I could be wrong...maybe life AIN'T a bowl of cherries?
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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ohmslucy
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posted on July 28, 2003 05:09:47 PM
Okay, you sillies...
ANYBODY knows it's an aebleskiver bowl, designed to hold just one aebleskiver... LOL!
Seriously, it looks like a rice bowl to me. Perhaps from French Indochina?
Lucy
Life's too short to drink cheap wine...
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tomwiii
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posted on July 28, 2003 05:21:37 PM
What the heck did I just say?
Geeesh!
AND...you couldn't pay me to hold just ONE ableskiver! No way! No how!
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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ohmslucy
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posted on July 28, 2003 06:33:32 PM
Okay, Tom, calm down, take it easy, it's okay...
You said it was an S-Car-Go bowl and it can be that if you want it to. LOL!
BTW, you don't HOLD an aebleskiver, you EAT it! With lingonberry preserves and powdered sugar. Generally when you're in Solvang (Danish community here in Central CA) or at my house when I get inspired to make the blame things.
Me
Life's too short to drink cheap wine...
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pelorus
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posted on July 30, 2003 07:11:41 AM
I think it's called a spittoir.
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miscreant
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posted on July 30, 2003 07:20:19 AM
It's for sorbet.
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Dragonmom
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posted on July 30, 2003 08:26:24 AM
Well, Iknow this one! It IS a coffee bowl.
You drink your breakfast cofee, made with lots of milk and sometimes toasted bread crumbled into it form a little (or big) bowl. It's great in the winter, as the bowl warms your hands in those poorly heated Chateaus. And the kids drink milk with a drop of coffee from them. Most of them are footed, presumably to keep the hot bowl off the fine woodwork. And, yes, Sorbet gets served in them too.
That one is a beauty!
"And All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well"
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 30, 2003 08:52:11 AM
Thanks to everyone for all of the suggestions. There are a few I have not considered, because I hope they were meant in jest. Others, however, have helped describe this little gem very clearly.
Thanks again for your assistance and help on this one.
Wayne
Trying to Make a Difference - One Satisfied Customer at a Time....
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tomwiii
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posted on July 30, 2003 11:51:22 AM
Shirley, you jest??
Ralphie loves Mr Blonde:
"Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?"
http://tinyurl.com/5duz
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TheFamilyBiz
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posted on July 30, 2003 11:57:44 AM
Who are you calling "Shirley?"
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AuctionAce
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posted on July 30, 2003 12:25:21 PM
Ooh, the funny line from the movie Airplane
"Of course I'm serious. And stop calling me Shirley!"
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