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Our Great-Grandmother Broeder was very proper and lived in Webster Groves, Missouri, which was a suburb of St. Louis, over 100 years ago. She had a set of Haviland Limoges china for 16, complete with butter pats and finger bowls. The set is very delicate with pink flowers on white bone china and is hopelessly out of fashion now. My mother inherited the full service and Aunt Nan was always covetous and "Hurt" she didn't inherit it instead. Naturally, none of us wants or uses it today and we probably couldn't give it away, which just goes to show how silly the whole collecting "Things" can be. Still I am dutifully storing the mountain of china in my cabinets in the hopes some of our children will want it some day. In the mean time the shape is pretty (without the flowers) so I pulled out a delicate demitasse cup to paint as part of my Première Coup project. White objects are a great way to study values and elliptical shapes are a challenge to draw so, there are quite a few lessons to be learned by painting an all white cup and saucer. And without the pink flowers it look rather contemporary! I think it would look darling in a kitchen.