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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My more casual china is Mottahedeh's imperial blue and I use it whenever we have guests/family or are celebrating anything - probably 20x a year?

https://www.scullyandscully.com/tabletop/china/mottahedeh/mottahedeh-imperial-blue.axd?variant=MO2401+CW&gclid=Cj0KCQjw4PKTBhD8ARIsAHChzRLlTsVF1RgDfwdO6Vtu1tZiZY1QCiRZbrHLuM9YVZUh2o2faH4mDxcaAu5hEALw_wcB

My formal china is Herend fishscale in rust (can look red or orange) with fun accent plates and I use it for holidays - probably 5x a year.

https://www.scullyandscully.com/tabletop/china/herend-china/fish-scale/herend-fish-scale-rust.axd[/quote]

Is that lead free? I thought gold paint has lead.[/quote]

Most china is not completely lead free - lead is present in almost all antique china (not just the gold rim) and most current lines if you research it.

Not PP, but the Mottahedeh gold rim is on the outside and wouldn't touch the food. Obviously you're supposed to hand-wash anything with a painted gold rim.[/quote]

The above comment prompted me to buy a lead testing kit.

So far, I have thrifted china from Churchill, Noritake, Harmony House, Gold Standard, Liberty Blue from Staffordshire and Blue Willow from Bristol House. I have thrifted teapots from Andrea by Sadek and Nippon.

The Bristol House (made in China) and the Nippon items tested positive for lead. I will contact the thrift store that sold the Bristol House china to make them aware, because there is still a lof of this china in the store. I will dispose of it, and buy Churchill blue willow instead.

I'm not concerned about the teapots, because they are for display only.[/quote]

A few years ago I inherited my great-grandmother's wedding china, which is gorgeous. A sibling suggested I lead test so I bought a kit from Amazon and it was so purple it was almost black (purple meant lead was high on the test). I decided to spend the money to have a piece tested by a lab just to confirm and it turned out that the base color for the entire plate was very high in lead and then the colors in the pattern were even worse. We decided to keep one setting and the serving pieces for display and properly dispose of the rest. My great-grandmother apparently only used it on very important occasions and the next two generations used their own wedding china and kept hers in boxes, so I guess the family genetic line is lucky it never became daily dinnerware. [/quote]

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