Crate Barrel Gingko Leaf Plate By Lorianna on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
I love nature-related designs that feature animals, plants, or leaves, so when I had received three of these beautiful Gingko leaf plates, I was overjoyed. I had immediately fallen in love with them. A friend of mine bought them at Crate & Barrel. I have looked them up online, and right now Crate & Barrel's site says they cost $9.95 each (a bit pricy I'd say).
Shaped and colored as a leaf, these porcelain plates look simply wonderful. However, when it comes to practical use, they turned out to be a bit lacking, unfortunately. Being so flat and almost without raised edges, they can only be used for solid dishes that do not leak - no salads with runny dressing or anything like that. Sushi is what they work best for, but we do not eat sushi a lot in our family, so I always have to come up with something else I can serve on them. Usually, it is vegetables, deviled eggs, or some appetizer.
The plates are dishwasher safe and also safe for microwave and oven (I might come up with some hot appetizer I can serve on them). When I wash and handle them, I always worry abut breaking off that pointed edge, but so far they are all intact. Despite these minor drawbacks, I still love Ginkgo leaf plates. They always add a charming touch to the table.
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They do sound charming,but i don't like to much of a pattern on my plate.
They are beautiful, but I was wondering how you get the food to stay on them!
Very nice plate. The gingko tree is one I always remember from school when we had to collect leaves and this was the hardest trees to find!! You brought back a lot of memories with this :O)
These look lovely with a few slices of fruit or crackers. In the garden they look stunning with a dinner roll or muffin set at each place on one of these charming plates. They are delicate though, and are really almost ornamental because of that. But still, who can resist them?
I love this plate, it's very cool looking.
That is such a beautiful plate. My kids would love to eat appetizers off of something so unique.
Cool, what niece piece! How did the food manage to stay in those plates.Maybe best for serving solid .whatever its just lovely n unique.Welldone!
They are different,but classy.