"My Collection" Monday - Festival in the French Countryside?

These are some seriously awesome photos set to me by Heather in Washington.....  A veritable plethora of Country Festival.... WOW!

and French White....

 
So, Where is your Corningware??
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"My Collection Monday" - Festive Country Festival

From Gladys in Nebraska....   A veritable festival of Country Festival!

Where is your Corning Ware?? 
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About Town With Corningware - Perpetuated Pattern Paradox

For some reason, unbeknownst to me, the Pennsylvania Dutch Tole Painting theme (Country Festival) is constantly confused with the "Friendship" pattern.  I find this perplexing.  Maybe they think the blue birds are friends or something...

I see it on eBay ALL the time and even on etsy.  The only conclusion I can possibly draw from this perturbation is that one person misnamed it on eBay at some point in the past.  Being that most Corningware on eBay has been picked up at garage sales and such, most people don't know the actual pattern names. (I still have trouble with some of them... Like "Evening Song" and "Laurelwood")  It doesn't help that Corning never marked their pieces with design names either.  Oye!

The names were only printed on the boxes... No box, and it's a mystery.  Thus, as do I, a prospective seller will peruse eBay to research a pattern name and find the wrong information on a previously listed item. Not knowing it's wrong, the new seller propagates the misinformation on their own listing for the next person who is doing research on eBay to find and the vicious cycle continues..... (Thus why I started this blog... To get the information out there for people.  OK, and to talk about how wonderful Corningware is.)

So without further adieu.  I present this pair of patterns with their proper prenomen.

This is Country Festival (as seen in Tuesday's post) from the mid-70's

Here is the box it use to come in...  :)

True, it's a black and white drawing... But it's evident that it's the two birds with a tulip in between.....

This is Friendship.......

Friendship

(1996-1997)

And here is it's much more colorful box...... (the packaging of the 90's was a lot fancier than the 70's)

(and the proof is in the packaging)

What puzzles me most, is that they look so different, how did they get confused in the first place?  The two designs aren't even from the same decade... 20 years stands between them.  It's 70's vs. 90's.  It's jewel tones vs. pastels.  It's birds and tulips vs. Alstroemeria.  Ah HA!  Gottchya on that one didn't I?

Yes, it's true; Friendship isn't a tulip...  (Though I will admit that it kinda-maybe-sorta looks like a tulip)  I'm pretty sure, though not completely, that it's a "Lily of the Inca" AKA: Peruvian Lily (Alstroemeria); which just happens to be the flower of "Friendship".

See what I mean?

Update:  After this posting, Patricia brought up the fact that it looks like Freesia.....

I did a little more research through the "Language of Flowers" book I have. (a reprint from the Victorian era when these secret messages through bouquets of flowers were all the rage) and Freesia stands, not just for Friendship, but "Lasting Friendship".  This to me is even more fitting.

You decide...  Is it Peruvian Lily or Freesia...?  Either way, it's not a tulip.. :)

So hopefully this will help clear up all the puzzlement out there in regards to which pattern is which.  I know I sure could have used this type of publication about 6 years ago.  I guess it's better late than never, right?

Where is your Corningware??
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About Town With Corningware - This is Corningware Country

There are actually 3 patterns with "Country" in the name so I decided on doing another multi-pattern post.

I already posted Country Cornflower a while back.....  But I'll include it here too just for continuity.

Country Cornflower

(1988-1993)

Country Cottage

(1997-1998)  

This was made to coordinate with the Corelle pattern and even though the original pyroceramic Corningware was discontinued, the pattern is still available on World Kitchen's new "Simply Lite" Vitrelle bakeware line.

Country Festival 

(1975-1977)

I always found this pattern interesting.... Recently, I noticed that it has a copyright date in the lower right hand corner of 1975.  As far as I know, this is the only pattern with an actual date printed on it.  Ya just gotta love Pennsylvania Dutch tole painting. 

Where is your Corningware??
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About Town With Corningware - A Tale of Two Lips

The Tulip seems to be a recurring theme in Corningware patterns.  Here are the two that I know of.

Fresh Cut

(1997-1998)

Lyrics

(1995-1996)

I will admit, that Country Festival and Rosemarie could potentially be added to this grouping, but Country Festival is more of a Pennsylvania Dutch Tole Painted Design that just happens to have a tulip in it as well as blue birds.  Rosemarie looks kind of like a garland of tulips, but it could also be a pink harebells but I am pretty sure it stylized Rosemary (which does come in pink as well as blue varieties).  Thus the very name. 

Where is your Corningware??
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