Pattern Profile:
Blue Lily, Country Violets, Rose, Summer Blossoms (1986)

Within the Livingware line, Blue Lily, Country Violets, Rose and Summer Blossoms were launched mid 1986.  With the exception of Blue Lily, they are two-colour floral designs, decorated on the rim.  These patterns represent the first time the coupe plate shape was produced in Sandstone rather than white.  The bowls and oval platters are decorated on the rim with only a single coloured band.

Bread & Butter Plates:  Rose (left), Country Violets (right), Blue Lily (front)

The other Livingware patterns came with Suprema mugs that year, but a Sandstone version of Suprema would not reach production until about 1991.  For these beige patterns in the meantime, solid-coloured straight-sided mugs in stoneware were sourced from overseas.  All but Summer Blossoms would survive long enough to appear on beige Suprema mugs in at least one style.

Summer Blossoms was discontinued before 1992, and Blue Lily was dropped January 1995.  Rose and Country Violets disappeared sometime between 1993 and 1995; exact ending dates are not known.

Summer Blossoms bread & butter plates.

Solid-coloured mugs to co-ordinate with Summer Blossoms, Rose, Blue Lily.

Corelle Dinnerware:

Dinner Plate (10¼")
Luncheon Plate (8½")
Bread & Butter Plate (6¾")

Stoneware Mug (straight-sided, 9 oz) - all ‡
Suprema Mug (straight-sided, 10 oz) - Blue Lily, Country Violets, Rose
Suprema Mug (flared, 9 oz) - Blue Lily, Country Violets
         
Dessert Bowl (10 oz 5 3/8") *
Soup/Cereal Bowl (18 oz 6¼") *

1 Qt Serving Bowl (8½") *
2 Qt Serving Bowl (10¼") *
Oval Platter (12½") *

 
* - single coloured band:  Blue Lily = light blue, Country Violets = dark blue, Rose = grey, Summer Blossoms = green.

‡ - solid coloured mugs:  Blue Lily = light blue, Country Violets = dark blue, Rose = coral, Summer Blossoms = green.

Blue Lily, Summer Blossoms, Rose, Country Violets with matching mug.  Image from 1986 catalogue.

Others:
Licensed glassware was made for all four of these patterns. 

Indiana Glass produced a line of ‘Drinkware For Corelle’, and their glasses can be recognized by the ‘double bulge’ near the bottom.  This style was made for Blue Lily and Country Violets. 

Libbey, or its subsidiary Crisa, produced glassware for Blue Lily and Country Violets with a ‘single bulge’ at the base and a narrow top. 

There is also glassware decorated with Rose and Country Violets by an unidentified maker; the style is straight-sided and narrower at the bottom with a thick heavy base. 

Another style in Blue Lily, by an unidentified maker, came in 2 sizes, and these glasses have a slight hour-glass shape, narrowest in the middle and flared top and bottom; the base is flat and thin.

Summer Blossoms apparently has matching glassware, but the style is undetermined. 

Cutlery with decorated plastic handles was also made for Blue Lily and Country Violets.

Gemco produced tabletop accessories with an official version of Blue Lily under the brand name 'Corning Coordinates for Corelle'.  These pieces are clear glass with a pattern on the beige plastic lid.

Related Articles:

Stoneware Mug (1985)
Suprema Mug (1986)
Plate Styles: Coupe
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