This week’s fresh to market vintage has us all feeling fancy, with florals and flourishes and finery. It’s good to feel fancy sometimes. Going to the theater, even the movie theater, used to be an occasion to be fancy. Now it’s jeans and athleisure for everything, except maybe tea with the queen. We’re not going to harangue you about using your nice fancy things, because we have made it abundantly clear in the past that we support using your good stuff. What we’re going to do instead is share some of our fine fancy things that might put you in a fine fancy mood.

Victorian Hand-Painted Glass Pitcher

Offering an antique Victorian hand-painted clear glass pitcher. The stylized floral painting features purple irises blooming with both green and gold leaves. This would be a lovely accent piece in a contemporary home or a country cottage.

Antique Painted Glass Pitcher, $95

Linda, Selective Salvage

Rosenthal Porcelain Teapot

I love everything about roses, how they smell, their shapes and colors. Here in New England you can sometimes find very old varieties near stone walls or near old cellar holes out in the woods. We even had one at our old house that we should have asked to take some.The roses pictured on this large Rosenthal teapot is a variety of moss rose. The sepals that protect the rose bud prior to blooming time are very soft and mossy and give it its name. If you are a rose lover, why not collect pieces with all sorts of pose patterns and have a rose tea party?  As a bonus, check out our post on Collecting and Using Vintage Teacups.

 Bavarian Moss Rose Teapot, $119

-Mary Ellen, Aunt Hatties Attic

Purple Silk Floral Scarf by Echo

A long lightweight scarf is a staple of summer wardrobes. The airy fabric works well in the heat of summer, while accessorizing any outfit. It also works well if you happen to be cruising down the road in a convertible. Just the thing to keep your hair tamed. Or throw it around your neck and mimic the look of a vintage aviator. Marked “Echo,” this scarf is from a maker that started in 1923 in New York City and is still in business.

Silk Long Pointed Scarf, $18.95

-Pam, Vintage Renude

Victorian Pastoral Decorative Charger

The Victorians loved things that were ornate and pastoral like this decorative wall charger. It has no makers marks, which is annoying, but the motif is a dead giveaway for age. I love the colors, the greenish yellow and the tealish blue, and it has always been my philosophy that a flourish of gold is always good (like on the Victorian pitcher too).

Victorian pastorial decorative wall plate $195.

-Laurie, NextStage Vintage

Once many years ago, we were on a food tour that went to a tea shop. We rolled our eyes at the idea of fancy loose tea when we had been using perfectly good English tea bags for years. And then we tasted their tea and committed forever to loose leaf. Just like loose leaf tea tastes fresher, tea that comes out of a teapot tastes better too. It’s a fact.

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