MacKenzie-Childs Sage Green Enamel Charger Plate, Handmade Metal Rim, 12"

Details

Description

MacKenzie-Childs collectors know. Everyone else is about to find out.
This handmade 12-inch sage green enamel charger plate from MacKenzie-Childs … Read more MacKenzie-Childs collectors know. Everyone else is about to find out.
This handmade 12-inch sage green enamel charger plate from MacKenzie-Childs of Aurora, New York is the kind of tabletop piece that makes an entire table setting click into place. The color is the thing — that specific, perfectly calibrated sage green, the one that reads as earthy without being dull, sophisticated without being cold, and somehow absolutely right against linen napkins, white dinner plates, polished silver, raw wood, and candlelight in equal measure. The hand-applied enamel finish gives it a depth and slight variation that no mass-produced plate can replicate. The polished metal rim grounds it with just enough formality to work at a proper dinner table while staying loose enough for a farmhouse Sunday lunch.
About the Maker
MacKenzie-Childs built its reputation in a converted Victorian farm on Cayuga Lake in Aurora, New York, on a single conviction: that everyday objects should be as beautiful as the most prized ones. Their tableware — handmade, hand-finished, unmistakably theirs — became the obsession of decorators, collectors, and anyone who has ever sat at a table set with it and felt, without quite knowing why, that the meal was going to be exceptional. The brand's pieces trade briskly on the secondary market precisely because they are made in limited quantities, made by hand, and made to a standard that rewards close looking.
What a Charger Actually Does
A charger plate — also called a service plate, show plate, or underplate — stays on the table throughout the meal as the decorative foundation beneath each course. It protects your linen, elevates your plating, and transforms even a casual supper into something that feels considered and intentional. A beautiful charger does more visual work per square inch than almost any other element on a table. This one, in this sage green, does it effortlessly.
The Versatility Argument
Pair it with white ironstone for a crisp, farmhouse-formal look. Stack it under deep blue transferware for something more collected and layered. Use it solo as a charger beneath a simple white dinner plate and let the color do all the work. Display one on a plate stand in a kitchen that understands what a beautiful object can do for a room it isn't even being used in. The sage green sits perfectly in both French country and organic modern interiors — equally at home in a Provençal farmhouse kitchen or a spare, loft-style dining room with a concrete table and pendant lights.
Six are available — enough to dress a proper dinner table for six, or to mix into a larger collection of MacKenzie-Childs pieces. Message to arrange combined shipping on multiples.
Condition & Specifications
Very good handmade condition with the authentic enamelware character that comes from being made by hand in Aurora, New York — each piece carries the subtle individuality of genuine craft. 12" diameter. Enamel with metal rim. MacKenzie-Childs, circa 2000s. Six available, priced individually.
From Gentlemanly Pursuits — Montgomery, Vermont. Three decades specializing in authentic New England and Continental antiques. See less