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Christmas tableware for every course and every toast

Choosing the right Christmas tableware

The easiest way to choose Christmas tableware is to work through the meal, from the first toast to the last slice of cake. Start with the glasses. Champagne flutes are tall and slim to keep the bubbles in, and a coupe's deep saucer suits champagne and classic cocktails. Red wine glasses have a larger, rounder bowl so the wine can breathe, while white wine glasses are shallower to keep it crisp. Tumblers and a carafe or jug keep water on the table through the meal.

Then the food. Christmas serving platters take the roast or the cheese course, Christmas serving bowls hold the vegetables, and stoneware baking dishes go from the oven straight to the table. A marble cake stand gives the Christmas cake its moment, and a wine bucket keeps the next bottle cold.

Christmas cutlery finishes each setting: classic stainless steel for a formal table, or resin and striped handles for a more easy-going meal. Our wider glassware and cutlery ranges carry on well beyond Christmas.

How our Christmas servere aand glassware is made

Much of our Christmas glassware is mouthblown by skilled artisans rather than pressed, so each glass carries small variations of its own. Many pieces are lead-free crystal, chosen for brightness and clarity, and some are hand-finished in Poland with an optic twist that catches candlelight as it moves across the table.

The stoneware serving dishes, platters and bowls are made by skilled artisans in Portugal and finished with a glaze applied by hand. A reactive glaze behaves differently on every piece in the kiln, so no two dishes come out quite the same. Some pieces are hand-painted earthenware, and for a more formal setting there is fine bone china, known for its translucency.

The marble is carved by hand and polished by stonemasons in India, so no two cake stands share the same veining. Much of the cutlery, and the wine bucket, is stainless steel, made for everyday meals as much as for Christmas Day.

Christmas tableware that stays out after December

Very little here is made only for Christmas, and that is deliberate. The flutes that carry the Christmas Day toast come out again at New Year, and the platter that holds the turkey serves Sunday lunch long after the decorations are packed away. The pieces are designed to sit happily together, so a set can grow over several Christmases rather than being replaced all at once.

Christmas tableware & serveware FAQ's

A Christmas table usually works with three glasses per guest: one for fizz, one for wine and one for water. Champagne flutes keep bubbles longer because their tall, slim shape limits the surface exposed to the air, while a coupe suits champagne and cocktails before the meal. A red wine glass has a larger, rounder bowl that lets the wine breathe, and a white wine glass is shallower to preserve its crispness. Mixing styles, clear with coloured or tall with short, gives the table a relaxed, collected look, and placing glasses where candlelight catches them adds sparkle.

Plan your Christmas serving dishes around the meal itself. A large platter takes the roast and later the cheese course, and two or three serving bowls cover the vegetables, potatoes and salads. Stoneware baking dishes that go from oven to table save moving food from one dish to another at the busiest moment of the day. Small bowls hold sauces and dips, and a cake stand gives the Christmas cake or a cheeseboard a raised place of its own.

Several of our glasses are designed to do more than one job, which helps when cupboard space is limited. Bistro glasses are small enough for cocktails or iced drinks, and they also work as pudding glasses or a vase for a few stems. Tapering tumblers with heavier bases take water at lunch, short cocktails in the afternoon and a nightcap at the end of the evening. A carafe serves water or decants wine, and a glass jug doubles as a vase once the meal is over. Choosing pieces like these means fewer glasses to store between Christmases.

It depends on the kind of Christmas you are hosting. Stoneware suits a relaxed, generous table: it is hardwearing, and a reactive glaze gives each piece its own variation, so a set looks collected rather than uniform. Fine bone china suits a more formal meal, with a fresh white glaze and a delicacy known for its translucency. Many tables mix the two, with stoneware serving dishes and platters down the middle and finer pieces at each place, and because the collections are designed to sit together, mixing them is straightforward.

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