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    Posted 3 years ago

    Kebrons
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    My aunt had a set of these Limoges plates “La Chasse a la Licorne” from the 1970s. Does anyone know if its safe to eat off these? I’m assuming they shouldn’t go in the dishwasher (gold rims).

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    1. Newfld Newfld, 3 years ago
      Beautiful medieval image, so much lovely detail
    2. apostata apostata, 3 years ago
      plumbum intoxication

      IF YOU dine off the finest antique porcelain, beware. The chances are it is
      tainting your food with quantities of lead that would be illegal in modern
      dinner plates.

      Ralph Sheets, a chemist at Southwest Missouri State University in
      Springfield, tested samples of old crockery bought in antique shops and flea
      markets around the US. He found that half of them exceeded limits set by the US
      Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lead released by new tableware.

      The lead comes mostly from the paints that were used to decorate the
      porcelain. They were applied on top of the glaze, because the high temperatures
      needed to glaze white china spoils many pigments. The metal is released
      gradually from the paint when it reacts with atmospheric carbon dioxide
      dissolved in the thin film of water that is present even on “dry” crockery.
      There it accumulates, until the crockery is used.

      “I grew up eating off these dishes, and I don’t think it has done me any
      harm,” says Sheets. “But some dishes are certainly unsafe if used all the time.”
      And his paper in the current issue of The Science of the Total Environment (vol
      212, p 107) warns that “old ceramic ware should not be used for the serving of
      food”. Lead can impair neurological development in children.


      The worst offenders included a Japanese dish that was more than 250 times
      over the FDA limit. Antique porcelain from Haviland Limoges in France and Roslyn
      China in Britain also failed the lead test. The offending paint has long since
      been phased out.


      IF YOU dine off the finest antique porcelain, beware. The chances are it is
      tainting your food with quantities of lead that would be illegal in modern
      dinner plates.

      Ralph Sheets, a chemist at Southwest Missouri State University in
      Springfield, tested samples of old crockery bought in antique shops and flea
      markets around the US. He found that half of them exceeded limits set by the US
      Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for lead released by new tableware.

      The lead comes mostly from the paints that were used to decorate the
      porcelain. They were applied on top of the glaze, because the high temperatures
      needed to glaze white china spoils many pigments. The metal is released
      gradually from the paint when it reacts with atmospheric carbon dioxide
      dissolved in the thin film of water that is present even on “dry” crockery.
      There it accumulates, until the crockery is used.

      “I grew up eating off these dishes, and I don’t think it has done me any
      harm,” says Sheets. “But some dishes are certainly unsafe if used all the time.”
      And his paper in the current issue of The Science of the Total Environment (vol
      212, p 107) warns that “old ceramic ware should not be used for the serving of
      food”. Lead can impair neurological development in children.


      The worst offenders included a Japanese dish that was more than 250 times
      over the FDA limit. Antique porcelain from Haviland Limoges in France and Roslyn
      China in Britain also failed the lead test. The offending paint has long since
      been phased out.



      Read more: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15821323-700-poisoned-plates/#ixzz76TdLMy6x
    3. apostata apostata, 3 years ago
      i don,t know it is the same or same porcelain , so my conclusion might be premature
    4. Gillian, 3 years ago
      Definitely no dishwasher. These plates were made in the mid 70's by one of the most famous porcelain manufacturers, and not sold for domestic household use.
    5. Kebrons, 3 years ago
      Thanks all! I know my aunt had these plates hanging on a wall. She downsized and gave them to my mother, who is clearing out her house and gave them to me! I just thought they were so beautiful I wondered if they could safely be used for dining on occasion. I don’t want to poison my family!
    6. Gillian, 3 years ago
      I don't think you will poison anyone, but you do risk damaging them.

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