Oval platters are always for meat service. The rounder platters are usually for roasted root vegetables-potatoes.

@deborahkennett1007

Жыл бұрын

I agree

@SALESARS

Жыл бұрын

I read a comment about your round platters, and they said the round ones were for veggies. And yes that's right. But my Grand mother used hers for both veggies and for sliced meats .thanks again. If you thought the dishes were expensive, wait till you buy the silverware for all those dishes.

@user-qz5dq8kn4p

11 ай бұрын

My grandmama has 80 of the round players and there used in her set as chargers underneath the 10 inch diner plate and her set can accommodate 80 people it’s fabulous she had it made and there’s about over 800 pieces she also has fish platers and fish plats it’s crazy 🥰

What an exceptional find! Great decision to snap them up! You need to buy these things when you see them. Regardless of the historical use, those larger round serving dishes will be great for all sorts of salads, cold pasta dishes, fruit plates, vegetable dishes or saucy anything. Ps you can use the gravy boat for extra sauces for desserts as well, such as raspberry glaze, vanilla cream sauce, salad dressing, etc. no need to follow conventional use, use it for everything!

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

When those larger dishes are big enough, I think we can safely say they were used for serving rather than for individual use. Like the gazpacho Rob was squeamish to try! 😉😅 Also sliced or even whole fruit or berries in cream. Or just grilled or roasted vegetables.

Guys! I am SO GLAD you decided not to go home without that gorgeous monogrammed China! It was meant to be, worth every penny, and just too perfect for you to leave behind. I am thrilled for you to have found them! Hope they go in a display China cabinet so they can be enjoyed on and off your table. And Rob, if I may be so bold, please stop allowing the cost of your new roof to be the basis of all other purchases you make or desire to. The roof is a MUST, it HAS to be replaced, it is an expense in and of itself, in a totally different category. You can’t keep allowing it’s cost to keep you from enjoying perfect purchases like the China and a need for a good rotor tiller, so please relax in that regard OK. Like is meant to be enjoyed, not counted by dollar signs. 😊

@lisac1110

Жыл бұрын

43 years on the 18th congratulation to both of you 🎉❤😊 and I am happy you got the find of a lifetime it would have e been a shame to leave it behind all the best 😊😊😊❤

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

...yet I am sure he doesn't want to go into debt either!! Gee. I was hoping they were going to turn this gorgeous building into a hotel ...or if not a full-service hotel, at least a Bed * Breakfast!!

Regarding the big porcelain set, I would leave note at the brocante, that if they got more, please call! Maybe they will tell you, where they got it, but probably an auction. If so, which one, do they know, who bought the rest? I would also do a google image search, check online matketplaces. I would also take a quick tour around all brocantes within a certain range. Because the set was obviously split in two! Because certainly there is missing tureens, deep plates, tea and coffeecups, tea- and coffeepots, vases, etc. Just because it would be just awesome to have a near complete set for the Chateau!! Worth some effort 😊 I would do a wall display in the diningroom 😁😁😁

@nancyjones247

Жыл бұрын

YES YES YES! I hope they can find more china!!

@lisaakinlabi

Жыл бұрын

YES I agree with this! It's worth checking because it makes the value go way up and helps to complete the service. Wouldn't it be cool if they were once part of the chateau and made it full circle to come home.

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Or put out the tureens and more flashy pieces with the gilding (gilt) on a couple of antique sideboards or hutches.

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

That is exactly what I was thinking!! @@lisaakinlabi

Loved the photos of Angers I am an 82 years old french woman who nt to school in Angers you brought back a lot of memories!! also a native of Saumur a wonderful town full of history including ahugenot university etc...Love what you are doing.

I'm not even waiting for the end to say how THRILLED I am that you bought the dishes! When I saw Leslie wrapping them up I actually let out a WHOOP!!! That was a good call. When it's just so perfect a match you would have kicked yourself later if you'd let them go. Also, those statues were wild!

@nancyjones247

Жыл бұрын

I gave out a holler too! 😂🎉🎉🎉

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

I was wondering if those dishes were actually making their way home?? The chatelaine from "Doing It Ourselves" found a large piece of furniture for the foyer I think that was original to the chateau. (...or maybe it was the dining table & chairs). Anyway, If these things were sold at an estate sale long ago, then perhaps the nearby antique dealers have been actually holding them all this time, and the objects themselves have a mysterious way of making their way back to their first home. 😉☺🤔 ...if they're anything like the dishes in Beauty & The Beast that is!! 😁☺

@LaughingInTiny

Жыл бұрын

@@kindlydude oh I wonder if there are records from the Faire! I mean that's for sure a good deal of work probably to track down, but someday they should try. What a fantastic story that would be!

I think those deeper dishes would be serving plates so the servants can dish up vegetables or meats.

@lisabroucekmattson1039

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking vegetables too!!

That china was a serendipity! Really, a blessing from the Lord to two very loving, hard-working and generous kids of His! Great gift to yourselves to celebrate your 33rd wedding anniversary! I was really hoping you would buy it, then to SEE it all laid out on your dining table brought tears! What a find!

As someone with G for their last name I’m so jealous of that dish purchase! If I had found those during our 6 yrs in Europe I would of snapped them up in a heart beat!

Now all you need is a beautiful french style china cabinet!!! Just gorgeous!!!

Gorgeous set of dishes. Perfect for your chateau. Great day at the brocante!

On horse farms (dressage) here where I live, they take a bed springs like the kind that used to go under a mattress, the covers stripped off, attach to a tractor or mower and drag it through the sandy dressage rings to keep weeds from growing. It works really well.

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Excellent idea ...you could even drag them behind a small car.

My parents had a large full service set with those kind of platers that were for vegies, potatoes, chicken ect that were used to hold the food for the table, multiple depending on how big the table is 🍗

Happy Anniversary, Rob and Leslie, You are living your best years, creating and working and serving, and being a blessing to many. Thank you for sharing your journey. You did just great at the Brocante- the incredible set of china and copper pots etc. You were truly led to it and there will be very special opportunities to put it to use.

The low raised platters are for serving salads and some veg. The highly raised ones on a high foot are for fruit. The middle height for cakes, sweets and the like. This was not meant as a tea service, but a full fledged dinner service, which in it's hay days was even more extensive. It's an incredible find for that money, congrats!!! Next.... buy the dinner silver to accompany it.

Omgosh Leslie I’m so glad you bought the China and what a deal for everything. I LOVE IT and can’t wait to see you use it. Also Happy Anniversary👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️

Now you need a beautiful China Closet!! What a blessing!! The China is perfect!!💜🌈💜

These are round platters (plats ronds). Very common in French set of dishes. The manufacturer Hache Pepin Le Haleur was a porcelaine manufacturer in Berry (1795-1930).

The monologue that he starts at 24:26 could teach one of the most valuable lessons many of us will ever learn.

OK finding that service was a blessing. What a wonderful collection for the chateau and to showcase special events. The shallow servers were normally used for vegetables.

I am so so happy that you bought the dishes!🎉 if you would’ve left them I would’ve been very depressed. Every château needs one great set of Porcelain😊

Very thankful for Leslie and Rob’s faith in the Lord!

@nancyjones247

Жыл бұрын

AMEN!!!🙏🙏🙏

The deeper dishes are soup plates, the deeper dishes on a stem are for serving fresh fruit, then you have vegetable tureens. The oval serving plates are for serving meat or fish. The dinner service will/ should have side plates for bread, soups, fish course, main course, dessert plates then finally fruit/cheese plates. They generally start small and get larger as you go through the meal with the dessert and fruit being smaller again. It’s truly beautiful and wonderful to have so many items. The copper pans were amazing even at €59 for the set? It would have even an incredible price. You can get them retained, there’s a famous town in France the name I’ve forgotten which is the “home” of copper ware there’s a Frenchman who owns a workshop which retains any old copper ware, it’s much much cheaper than buying new. The set you’ve bought brand new would easily be €1000!

YAY! You bought all the porcelain dishes. How special!

That China is absolutely beautiful!! What a happy surprise ❤

Happy anniversary! My husband and I will be celebrating our 35th this coming Sunday. I love the terminology you used Rob of “building a marriage.” It really is about sharing all the hills and valleys of life together and becoming stronger together for it. Thank you for being a wonderful example to so many. Gratitude and blessings!

Bonjour Leslie and Rob, oh my goodness, the portion of the roof that has been completed looks so beautiful. You had to get the China what a steal for everything, and come on it has the G, that was a sign. it is so beautiful as well. I had no idea bone China got stronger with cleaning. The kitchen is looking beautiful. The Chateau was just stunning what a treat, thanks for sharing it with us. Love from N.Y.

So glad you bought the china-- and cool history! Would be a bonus to know who commissioned it. Will you display it in one of the kitchen hutches? Frustrating that the roofers aren't more thorough tarping the roof....

That’s a dinner service. What a lovely find.The large round question plates are known as chop plates. People didn’t eat in the portions as we do now.

I like seeing a news roof going up on a chateau. It looks magnificent ❣️👏🏻

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Yes!! Avoiding roof repair is the No. 1 reason so many historic estates and chateaus all around the world are lost!!!

Those copper saucepans looked very reasonably priced. There is a channel called Sean’s World I think and he is an expert on all things copper. He also has an Etsy store selling copper and his wife has one selling embroidered table linens and sheets. They are English who have lived in France for some years now. Apparently the really valuable copper has particular stamps on the side but they keep that information close to their chest as does Billy Petherick. The information is probably available online with some research.

I wonder if the dishes are for soup or are they to big? I bet Philip from Chateau Diaries who is a connisseur of porcelain would know!

As a child my family had a very similar variety of "special occasion" china. Our place setting was for about 20 and the scale appears to be somewhat smaller but I remember serving pieces that were described as "meat platters" and "vegetable platters". The meat platters were obviously the larger flat pieces but the deeper pieces were used as serving bowls for vegetables or salads. Both of my parents have been gone for many years so I can no longer ask. I do remember the giant bowls working very well to carry hot vegetables with sauces to the table without sloshing onto the floor.

I have a feeling that service set is from a small former hotel, in Paris! All the cake presentation trays makes me think it has come from a commercial establishment! Congratulations 🎉🎊🍾🎈 Cheers! Thomas!

Even before you explained y'all's marriage at the end I was thinking... What a patient loving husband. An example for the rest.

The large shallow platters are usually used for meats as the depth is used to keep juices on the platter. Although you could use them for any main course. Absolutely beautiful set and you got a deal! 😊

That wonderful set of china is absolutely superb and how fantastic that it has the G on it that goes with your magnificent chateau. What a find. I'm thrilled for you. Congratulations on 33 years together also. That's wonderful.

Hi guys, just come across your videos and watch for the FaceTime and I enjoyed it. Just wanted to say that me and my husband have been married for 46 years together 48 and have four children all grown up all when university and left home We have two boys and two girls, I fell in love with my husband when I was 15 and now at the age of 65 still loving the same, and he loves me the same so I would say to you enjoy what you have cherish all the moments and live life to the full lots of love

That dinner service was meant to be! Wonderful purchase!

Kitchen is starting to look way better 👍

Congratulations on your 33rd anniversary this week! 🥂 We also celebrated our anniversary this week of 34 years 💕 That crockery find in the brocante was amazing! You just had to have it! What a find Lesley!

I was sooooooo happy when you came across that whole set of dishes and accessories with the ‘G’ monogram!!! You rock on with your bad ass selves!!!

Every Chateau needs at least 1 good dinner service. The G aside, I believe the style of the porcelain goes well with the way you are decorating the chateau.

Happy Anniversary and great work! I think those large plates are for serving "a la Russie," Russian-style, when large amounts of meats or vegetables would be piled up on the plates and put on the table or sideboard and people would serve themselves. Great purchase! Enjoy!!❤

Happy anniversary! ♥️🥂 Lovely china dishes, perfect for the chateau. Kitchen is looking amazing and I was happy Rob said you’ll be putting up crown molding. Thanks for another enjoyable video.

Happy Anniversary. We will be celebrating our 30 this year. At 20 we chose to renew our vows with only our 3 son present. At 20 we had now idea what we were really promising each other. At 40 the words and promises meant the world to us.

Every relationship takes work and you are so correct! Congratulations to you both on your successful marriage; happy anniversary!

Congratulations on your anniversary. Thank you for the marriage talk, my husband and I just celebrated our first year in marriage.

That china is just perfect! Beautiful, wondeful looking monogram and lovely design, great purchase!

Just to let you know, these are my favorite youtube videos ever (except for the ones our grandson posts). I'm glad you bought that dinner service. I can empathize with you not wanting to spend the money right now, but you would be living with regrets if you'd passed it by as it would likely be many years before something so suitable came your way again. I appreciate your wisdom in knowing that.

I look forward to every Sunday video. I'm so glad that you bought the dish set. And you got a screaming deal on it. See you next week.

Fabulous, most people would not even look at a set like this. The round platters, were used for sliced meats. The oval platters were used for whole fish,foul and roasts .the footed bowls were used for fruit, sweet rolls. Thank you for sharing.

Yay!! You got the china!!! I'm so excited for you!!!🎉🎉🎉

I would use that china bowl for vegetables, like a whole cauliflower in the center surrounded by peas and carrots. The kitchen ceiling looks great! Happy aniversary to you both! 🥳

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking they could cover up any imperfections with those old-fashioned tin-molded decorative tiles that you see in old high-ceilinged buildings all across America...rather than silver they could be white or painted white.

Great comments about marriage, which largely has become a lost art. I'm not normally much of a dishes person, but that was a very cool find! Things sure are coming along with the Chateau, and it's a joy to observe.

The china is splendid!! Great anniversary present! Four pedestal compotes.

Beautiful dishes, they’re perfect for the chateau. What an incredible find!

@heididay6698

8 ай бұрын

Also, congrats on 33 years of marriage! That’s no small thing. I’ll admit marriage has shown me how selfish I am/can be as well.

Happy 33rd! Such a good talk Rob! You're a great husband! I know Leslie has amazing skills, great taste and very few women would ever take on "project Griff!" I think it was far more her idea because her great attitude towards the lifelong project amazes me! The Griff is so lucky to have you!

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Yes! indeed!!

LOVE LOVE LOVE the dishes!

At the end of formal dinners, fruit, nuts and cheese were served. You could use the raised bowls, , for fruit and nuts, and the cake plates and/or round platters for cheese. Unless you're doing an 18th /19th cent. re-enactment, feel free to use any of the plates for anything.

Wow, love, love love the dinner set Lesley you have that most wonderful eye and what a find!!! So happy for you all ❤❤❤❤

I remember my grandmother told me many years ago that they used it back then for when they made ragout (stew). The diners were able to soak their bread in the juices.

Hi Rob, you need to put a cover lower under the front and then little pebbles (gravel) which are pressed so they don't move to much. Then you don't have to get weeds out all the time.

Is it possible that the china you found was originally from your chateau? I realize that may be a real stretch but wouldn't it be wonderful! Greatbjob on the ceiling. I have a story to tell you. My husband and I spent 30 years restoring an 1890s house in Illinois, USA. Wavy walls and ceilings is sometimes the result when refurbishing. We called it "character" and our home was part of the Christmas Tour of Homes the year before we sold it. I miss that old house but our kids were married and supporting themselves and the house was too big for just the two of us. Be kind to yourself. You're not going for perfection in the chateau you're working toward helping to perfect the souls of those you minister to. May God bless you both! We are 41 years in on our marriage and happily so.

Oh I'm so happy for you, that you were able to purchase the china, it was just too awesome to pass up!

Leslie, what a great find and the china is beautiful. Tell Rob this was a great investment in the future.

La toiture est prioritaire sur la déco...Bon courage pour cet énorme chantier.

What an amazing purchase.....love the "G" for Grifferaie, the wall sconces and the pots....Wow, what a blessing!! Rob....the kitchen ceiling looks fabulous with no wires, all repaired, new lights and beautifully painted.....well done! Happy Anniversary to you both!

You're still newlyweds! We've been married 46 years! So glad you bought the china!

The tracks in the sky left by jet engines are called contrails, short for condensation trails. They are water vapor from the jet engine exhaust condensing in the cold air of the upper atmosphere. They are a great way to see which way the winds are blowing up there.

So this is the first time I have watched any of your videos. You had me at “Mr Bingley.” ❤❤❤ But just a few more minutes into the footage, without knowing anything about you, I thought to myself, “These two are believers.” And so I couldn’t rest until I ‘til I knew everything. I am absolutely thrilled at what you are developing there. Now I will go back and watch your videos from the very beginning. What a treat! Greetings from Oregon City!

Congratulations on your anniversary. We have been married 61 years in Sept. You are right that it is not always easy. I think about the bad times and realize I would not want to be married to anyone else in spite of problems. I love the china and am so glad you got it. If you passed it up, you may never find anything similar again. Your kitchen is looking great. Can't wait to see it finished.

@kathywillis7459

Жыл бұрын

61 years! Congratulations; that’s amazing!

The China is beautiful. When a whole Dover sole is served it is served from a deeper plate and the jus spooned over the served fish portion. A guess, perhaps it was from one of the early French transatlantic ships, so many possibilities, it will be so rewarding to do the research.⭐️

Love what you bought..the china is beautiful..you will never be sorry..you can mix and match with other china in time..The chateau looks beautiful in the background,and the kitchen is a huge improvement..Happy Anniversary..and many more.

Those are hard o pass up. Good job! How very special!

Happy anniversary. As for the dishes, Our Father wants us to have His best for us. I believe He made a way for you to have them. Who’s to say those didn’t come from the Griff originally?

Always prep properly, including tarps on the floors. The cleanup is a breeze, just pickup the four corner’s and dumps all the mess in the bin. Cleaning done.

Congratulations on your 23rd Anniversary!

The one is a charger and the other one is a dinner plate my one set that I have came with them the small covered dishes are covered vegetable dishes and the gravy is also for sauces The family that had them made had to be a prominent on and I’m sure there were more pieces that had gotten broke or lost There’s a cream and sugar that belongs to that set and a tea and cowfe pots My grandmama always says that your dinning table is your calling card if it’s set with bone chiner your gust will come back and also how the setting looks as well at each place set lol 🥰

The roof is looking great. I am so happy you bought the china, That is a once in a lifetime find. Nice items you found. The kitchen is beautiful at last, Now the elegance shows, Great job! I enjoyed the tour of the castle also. Blessings.

What an amazing find! Those bowls on a stand ( the highest ones) are for putting fruit on. There are prabebly that many because you can decorate a huge table with them filled with fruit overspilling the rim! Or you put small cakes and mignardises on them. Shame there is no coffee service with it.

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Like whole Pineapples at either end of the table & grapes spilling over the sides.

Wow! It's absolutely beautiful. Much joy!

Happy anniversary and blessings be on you both! The cake stands seem to have two shapes, one a little deeper than the other. Might the deeper one be for a fruit compote?

Absolutely perfect set of china!... Angers is my favorite city in France too. I keep finding myself drawn to it over and over, so I've narrowed my search to within 100km of it....

The special china set is incredible! With your large groups, and the special events (where your students learn a bit more about the fine things in life, now and in the past), it should come in handy. Just beautiful. The painted ceiling in the other chateau is fabulous. I always wonder if the moat makes everything completely damp. What a problem to have, no? Though I'm in Southern CA, taking off the last half of August sounds like such a great idea. I start off the year planning and working hard to get things done, and by this time I run out of steam. I hope a bit more of the roof is done and sealed up before the roofers leave!

Castle ten Berghe has a piece of equipment that hooks up to a garden tractor that removes his weeds. Love the show and Thank you for sharing.I like the religious views you share as well.

I love the china!! I'm so glad you got it. Perfect!

The ceiling came out beautiful!!! The kitchen is going to styling when you get the coving up and build the hood and frig shelves. 👍🏻 Rotor tiller smaller doesn’t mean easier a bigger heavy machine is better for larger jobs where the land has never or infrequently been tilled, whereas the smaller machine is better suited to smaller areas and a more gentle soil. The gravel I think the best machines to handle that is a skid steer with a ruckus rake attachment that will eat up that hard gravel dirt loosen it up and than you can use the skid steer to move the debris around to reestablish your driveway levels and smooth it out and compact it down ready for road-base.

Im so glad for the roof and the china service. And you have a new roof!! Blessings abound around you both. And the copper pans! It's Grace.

Marriage is hard for everyone, on varying levels. There are good seasons and tough seasons and everything brings stress on each person and therefore on the relationship. None of us are perfect communicators, none of us can care for one another perfectly 100% of the time. Every human relationship has its challenges. Sometimes it is honouring just to say - we're glad God has brought us this far!

We have just had a week holiday in a small village called Noyant and yesterday on a trip out drove past your chateau. We could just see it over the maize fields and recognised it immediately , it’s a stunning building and the roof is starting to look amazing 👍

@chateaudelagrifferaie953

Жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh:). I love that the corn keeps it a bit quieter, but I always miss the view of the chateau when I drive up and the corn is tall:)

Beautiful dishes find! One type of food that used to be popular were many types molded sweet or savory dishes. Those round serving dishes would probably work well :) Great find!

@kindlydude

Жыл бұрын

Like English "blood pudding" or other things made with gelatin which were not always sweet but savory as you say.

Wow what a fabulous find. I would have been so sad, if you left without them.

The china was an incredible find and since I am a china-aholic I LOVED seeing it from Brocante to wash up!!! So happy for you.

It’s a round platter and they are gorgeous

Happy anniversary to the both of you and Lots more

Happy Anniversary for your 33rd!! My husband & I are working toward our 2 yr anniversary coming in November. We celebrate every 6th of each month and not taking it for granted and appreciate that we found each other so late in our single, independent and busy lives. We met through the love of common love of our breed of dogs, yorkshire terriers .. You just know when you find the right person to share your life with.. Congratulations 🎊

Very happy for you on your treasures! I love your dishes!! Very elegant . You did fantastic.

Congratulations on your wedding anniversary. That's so precious in this day and age. And, well done on the beautiful china! It's incredible and will bring you years of pleasure I'm sure. Thanks Rob for once again being so open and honest about the realities life. Love the kitchen, Lesley! It's beautiful! You deserve it with all the time you spend in there pouring your love into the cuisine for your guests. 🙏 for your finances!

You HAVE TO take advantage of finding things that are perfect for your space! You got an AMAZING deal for all those things! I know you said you are on the cheap in your living expenses- but when you find an amazing item, then you can afford to splurge!