9 Best Serveware For Hosting This Easter
- 5 days ago
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Updated: 4 days ago
From heirloom-quality platters to the ceramic bowl you'll reach for every spring Sunday, these are the pieces worth putting on your table — and keeping there.
By: Home Findss Editors
Whether you're hosting a full sit-down lamb roast or a relaxed afternoon brunch with deviled eggs and a charcuterie spread, the right serveware does two things at once — it carries the food beautifully, and it sets the tone for the whole table. These nine pieces, sourced from the brands that do it best in the US and Canada, have earned their place on the list.
1.
Pottery Barn
Gabriella Reactive Glaze Large Serving Platter
From $89 | Available in the US & Canada
If there's one platter that belongs at the center of an Easter table, it's this one. The Gabriella reactive glaze collection from Pottery Barn has that quality that only handcrafted stoneware delivers — no two pieces are exactly the same, and that variation is entirely the point.
The glaze pools and shifts between warm white and barely-there sage, making it look like something you've had for years, even if it just arrived on your doorstep.
At the large scale, it's wide enough to hold a full rack of lamb or serve as a generous base for a deviled egg display. It moves from oven to table without complaint, and the low, wide rim keeps sauces and juices where they belong. This is a piece you'll use at Easter and then find impossible to put away.
Best for: a centrepiece main course platter
2.
McGee & Co. / Studio McGee
Hand-Stamped Glazed Stoneware Serving Bowl
From $68 | Ships to the US & Canada
Shea McGee's approach to tabletop is the same as her approach to interiors — nothing too precious, nothing too casual, but everything exactly considered. The hand-stamped stoneware serving bowls from McGee & Co. carry that same sensibility. The stamped detailing along the rim gives them a quiet visual texture that reads as artisan without being rustic, and the glaze — in muted ivory tones — works against linen, against marble, against a tablecloth in any spring neutral you can think of.
Use it for a roasted carrot and feta salad, for a generous pile of hot cross bun bread pudding, or simply as the bowl that holds fresh fruit in the center of the table before anyone sits down. It's the kind of piece that earns its permanent spot out of the cupboard.
Best for: salads, sides, and elevated everyday use
3.
Weston Table — Bordallo Pinheiro
12" Pink Cabbage Cake Stand
Available online | Ships to US & Canada
There are cake stands, and then there is this. The Bordallo Pinheiro 12" Pink Cabbage Cake Stand is the kind of piece that makes a table stop — fully, completely stop — the moment it arrives on it. The Portuguese manufacturer has been moulding its signature cabbage-leaf ceramics by hand since the 1880s, and the pink colorway is its most extravagant expression of a form that was already plenty expressive to begin with. Every leaf, every vein, every curling edge is moulded and hand-painted in a soft blush that reads somewhere between peony and vintage rose, depending on the light.
For Easter, this is the dessert moment the whole table has been building toward. Set a carrot cake on it, a pavlova piled with pastel meringue and fresh strawberries, or a simple chiffon dusted in powdered sugar — the stand does the styling for you. At 12 inches, it's generous enough to hold a proper celebration cake without the layers looking precarious, and the pedestal base is weighted enough to feel substantial. Weston Table is one of the most reliable North American stockists for the full Bordallo Pinheiro range, making this the right place to pick it up before Easter weekend arrives.
This is, without question, the most joyful piece on this list. If you're the kind of host who understands that an Easter table should feel like a celebration and not just a dinner, this cake stand is your closing argument.
Best for: the dessert moment that guests will photograph
4.
West Elm
Organic Shaped Stoneware Serving Bowl
From $49 | Available US & Canada
West Elm has always had a gift for making modern feel warm rather than cold, and the Organic Shaped Stoneware collection is one of the clearest expressions of that. The slightly irregular, hand-finished rim gives the bowl an honest, made-by-someone quality that factory ceramics simply don't have. In the muted green glaze — a colour that feels season-appropriate without being in-your-face about it — it's genuinely one of the better Easter table finds at this price point.
It's the right size for a big spring salad or a generous grain bowl for the table to share, and it nests beautifully with other pieces in the collection if you want to build a coordinated set without the set price tag. Available in both the US and Canada, which makes it accessible to a wide range of hosts who don't want to pay cross-border shipping on something this heavy.
Best for: value-forward stoneware that still looks the part
5.
Crate & Barrel
Mercer Marble & Acacia Cheese Board
From $59 | Available US & Canada
A good cheese board is one of the most reliable pieces of serveware you'll own, and Crate & Barrel's Mercer board is one of the best at this price point. The combination of honed white marble and warm acacia wood handles gives it a material contrast that photographs beautifully and looks intentional on any table, from farmhouse to modern. For Easter — a meal that often includes a substantial cheese and charcuterie moment before the main event — it earns its spot immediately.
The marble surface stays cool, which matters if you're setting up a board an hour before guests arrive. The acacia handles make it easy to carry from the kitchen to the table without ceremony. Use it for a pre-dinner spread of aged cheddar, soft brie, and honeycomb, and it will become a regular fixture well beyond the Easter weekend.
Best for: the pre-dinner cheese and charcuterie spread
"The right serveware doesn't compete with the food — it makes the food look like it was always supposed to be there."
6.
Pottery Barn
Classic Tiered Stand
From $119 | Available US & Canada
A tiered stand is the piece of serveware most people don't realize they need until they use one — and then they can't imagine how they ever hosted without it. Pottery Barn's Classic Tiered Stand works as a display for mini quiches and tea sandwiches during a brunch, for dessert at a children's Easter table (the Easter egg-shaped petit fours look extraordinary stacked three high), or simply for the kind of multi-level fruit display that makes a buffet table look genuinely styled.
The white ceramic tiers and the brushed metal stand strike a balance between formal and relaxed that suits Easter particularly well — it's a meal that tends to sit somewhere between a casual brunch and an actual dinner party, and this piece navigates that in-between zone effortlessly. It also comes apart easily for storage, which is the practical detail that makes the difference between a piece you reach for every time and one that gathers dust.
Best for: Easter brunch displays and dessert presentation
7.
Farmhouse Pottery (via Weston Table)
Silo Serving Bowl, Large
From $110 | Available online
Vermont-based Farmhouse Pottery makes ceramics the way people used to make ceramics — each piece wheel-thrown by hand, fired in small batches, finished in a limited range of glazes that get better the longer you use them. Their Silo bowl is the standout piece from a lineup that takes its time and shows it. The form is satisfyingly generous: deep enough to hold a full-portion salad or a pasta dish without feeling cramped, wide enough to look substantial on a table without overwhelming it.
Weston Table carries Farmhouse Pottery's full lineup and is one of the most reliable places to order it in North America. For Easter, put this on your table for the spring vegetable side — roasted radishes and pea shoots, or a warm asparagus salad with lemon and parmesan — and it will look like it was made specifically for the occasion.
Best for: the heirloom-quality bowl worth investing in
8.
McGee & Co.
Antique Marble Cake Stand
From $78 | Ships to US & Canada
A marble cake stand is never just for cake — though it is, of course, extraordinary for cake. McGee & Co.'s antique marble version is one of those pieces that earns its place on the counter as much as on the table. The marble has the warm, slightly imperfect veining of something genuinely aged, and the pedestal base gives it a quiet presence that makes even a simple bundt cake look like a main event.
For Easter specifically: a carrot cake with cream cheese frosting on this stand is a table moment that doesn't need anything else around it. But you can also use it for a display of pastel-glazed cookies before guests arrive, or for the cheesecake you baked on Saturday night and want to present with some intention on Sunday afternoon. It also works as a permanent kitchen counter piece — one of those rare items that genuinely belongs in both contexts.
Best for: dessert presentation and the Easter cake moment
9.
Crate & Barrel
Large Oval Serving Bowl
From $45 | Available US & Canada
The oval serving bowl is an underrated format — it holds more than it looks like it will, it presents food in a natural elongated shape that reads as generous, and it takes up the right amount of horizontal space on a table without dominating. Crate & Barrel's Aspen oval bowl ticks all of those boxes and adds a glaze in a soft, earthy white that works with spring tablescapes better than the stark-white alternatives from most standard kitchen ranges.
This is the practical pick on the list — a piece you buy because you need it, and then end up loving because it works every single time. At this price, it's also the entry point for anyone building out a serveware collection who wants something that will pull its weight at Easter and then earn its keep at every dinner party through the rest of the year. One of the best straightforward investments in this roundup.
Best for: a versatile everyday oval that looks anything but ordinary
The Bottom Line
Easter is one of those meals that rewards a little advance thinking about the table — not so much that it feels fussy, but enough that the whole thing has a sense of occasion. The serveware you choose does more of that work than most people expect. A well-chosen platter says something. A marble cake stand says something. Even the bowl for the salad says something, if you let it.
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