Brocante à la Viennoise:Allegro con Brio

Rule #1
A proper Viennese Brocante
has to take place
in a suitably elegant
neighbourhood.
No dusty fields

Rule #2
You are strongly
encouraged to dress
for the occasion.
Cocktails before, during, and/or
afterwards are de rigueur

Rule #3
Rules are there
to be broken.
Coffeepot has no lid?
Use the teapot's

Rule #4
Acknowledge thy mother's
exquisite taste in china.
Your mother would have
to be married to Bill Gates nowadays
if she wanted to buy that same old china set
you ate your childhood meals from

Rule #5
Forget about the rules:
Just look at these milk jugs.
They lend themselves beautifully
to stir the perfect Palatschinken dough

These beautiful pastel-hued dishes
used to grace many an Austrian family's
everyday dinner table in the Sixties and Seventies.

The Lililen-Porzellan company
discountinued production of the
popular "Daisy" dishes in 1971.
Collectors have been hunting
for them ever since.

Click --> Lilien-Porzellan
to learn more about
the success story of
these extraordinary dishes
from a small manufacturer
in Lower Austria

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Photographed
17 April 2010 at the
Saturday Flea Market
West of Naschmarkt
along Wienzeile
U4 Metro Stop:
Kettenbrückengasse
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Images and Text
Copyright by Merisi