Humor In Fitz and Floyd Porcelain Collectibles
I know, you’re saying how can there be humor in porcelain. Most of it is stuffy, grandmotherish and relatively dull. But not the porcelain items designed and made by Fitz and Floyd (known to friends and fans as F&F). Their whole approach to both dinnerware and home decoration is young, happy and funny. Look at the tumblers. Not drinking glasses, tumblers are several figurines in the various stages of performing a somersault. These could be rabbits for spring or Easter, Santa Clauses for Christmas or witches for Halloween. Usually there are three in a set, one bent over with its head on the ground, one with its heels in the air and one laying flat, trying to recover.
Fitz and Floyd have also taken the boring out of salt and pepper shakers. By making each a separate figure, they have created sets with a reindeer and a Christmas ball that sits in its antlers, a dog and a fire hydrant, and a cat and a goldfish bowl. You get the idea. Since F&F started this trend, salt and pepper duos are now available as Laurel and Hardy, Sylvester and Tweety, and the Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote.
For those looking for larger decorative ornaments, you should see the cookie jars. F&F have many in a Christmas theme, but the Santa Claus on a motorcycle with a reindeer in the side car is the best. They have cookie jars for other seasons and holidays, carousels, hayrides and Noah’s ark. All have a happy design to make you smile.
Two bunnies doing a tango form a tea pot. A proud turkey becomes a soup tureen, including the ladle. Canisters for the kitchen are formed in the shape of fresh produce. The ideas go on and on. Always painted in good and appropriate colors, the F&F touch becomes easily recognizable very quickly. They even produce usable dinnerware with wide colored bands in jewel tones. For bread plates they have many specialty plates with flowers or animals to coordinate with the colored band china.
If you have not seen Fitz and Floyd china, take a look on eBay or at the catalogs available on Amazon. It will open your eyes to a hole new world of porcelain collectibles.
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