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China plates proper on walis

DEAR MISS MANNERS — My mother has moved from the family home into an apartment with many blank walls. No longer having use for a varied and beautiful assortment of service plates collected by her own mother and used by both for formal dinners over the years, she has stored them in a closet.

I suggested she mount and display some of these color- ful and well-crafted plates on the dining-room wall, in lieu of the usual decorator’s art:

Mother argues thet a plate created and used for service is not a suitable wall hang. ing. The depression in the centre, covered always by a doily and first course, pre- vents the plate from becom- ing ‘‘decor’’ in the sense that a Chinese cloissone plate in standing frame or made for hanging on the wall is ‘‘dec- orative.”*

Since she would consider hanging the china but is uncertain whether her old friends would consider it gauche, we await your reply with interest.

GENTLE READER — Eti- quette’s interest in this dec- orating matter is only in the type of item that can be used for display, not whether the individual pieces are suit- able, which is best left to the

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