Restaurantware

These neoclassic-pattern ironstone portion plates are really a very fancy restaurantware made by Booths of England; […]

The thick, friendly china that furnished America’s childhood at diners and family restaurants like the International House of Pancakes and Mister Donut rubs alongside of the slightly more upscale restaurantware from sources such as the Hotel Dupont, The Houston Club, and even The International Monetary Fund.

The baked apple pie, in a restaurantware nappy bowl, is tender enough to eat with a delicate coin-silver spoon.

They were chunky, heavy, standard diner restaurantware, and this was meant to be a light and elegant social affair with fine china and silverware.

Madeline collects i950s-era poodle dishes by Glidden and restaurantware featuring turquoise polka dots.

Manufactured by Wood & Sons in England and supplied by Gowans Kent & Company of Toronto, the heavy, vitrified restaurantware of the company china featured a simple design of three green bands with a crest.

John Allen Taylor was an urban farmer and poem-writer in Spokane, where he socialized feral kittens, made candles, and collected restaurantware from the early 1930s.

TEPCO was also amongst several restaurantware manufacturers commissioned to produce custom dinnerware for the Navy and during WWII supplied china to the U.S. Pacific fleet, where every day up to 30,000 pieces boasting nautical motifs made their way onto ships sailing from San Francisco.