The Undeniable Charm of Pink Flowers

in defense of old china

A. Christine Myers
4 min readOct 14, 2019

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Flowered china, image, © the author

It seldom fails: the unaccountable allure of a few tiny pink roses painted on fine china.

I have walked into many an antique store, vintage shop, resale shop — sometimes with entirely other plans and sometimes merely with an open mind. I have come out carefully hoisting a paper bag full of white china sprinkled with little pink roses…

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