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Do you base your certainty on the type of glaze?
For what it's worth, during Gonder's relatively short history virtually everything was well marked with an incised cursive Gonder and the style is very atypical of the vast majority of there pottery.
The breaking of the glaze is very similar to Gonder pieces I have seen. I have also seen gonder pieces with similar gold accents. As to the marking, this is very small, and there is little room for even the number on the bottom. I am not positive it is gonder it is just an edjucated guess. If you are unconvinced, what is your guess?
Cool! I love the sophisticated atomic design. Kind of a truncated Herman Miller-kind-of-thing.
regards, jim b
I would be the crazy lady that put plates in her purse if I came across this at a coffee shop ! Wonderful!
I've done that too! On a normal day, I'm a pretty stand-up guy, but at least twice at a restaurant, I've asked for a to-go box and just put the plate and the food in the box. What a pillow-case.
When the old Trader Vic's was closing in Chicago several years ago, I went to dinner with a bunch of friends. Several of them, with large coats and purses, swiped dinner plates and chargers with the TV logo. I was tempted to join in, but asked myself why on earth I would need more dinnerware, much less dinnerware that was non-vintage! Since I was only a witness, does that make me guilty? ;^(
We the jury find the accused, AtomicScott, guilty by association.
Besides, I want company in jail. Do you think they'll let us have our dinnerware collections in our cells?
This is a nice grouping. The metallic glaze on this pattern "hazes over" as it is washed. The dinner plates, at least the earlier production, was very susceptible to dark crazing. At one time, this pattern seemed to be everywhere - most local estate sales and antique stores. Within the last few years, it has gotten harder to find - at least the serving pieces.
You're absolutely correct. A couple of plates and a saucer were badly crazed. I was after the casserole for a friend who collects this. btw, it looks great when she does a lunch in her garden room.
This is a great-looking table setting Scott. Paden City's Jacks is a highly attractive modern pattern imo. Thanks also for posting other photos of your collection!
I think this dinnerware and your tablescape have really fresh and appealing style. Well done!
i've never seen this much of this pattern! There is a shop locally that has a stack of cereal bowls but I've never seen place settings. Very nice!
Thanks and you're welcome. I think this is one of those great, guilt free, everyday use sets for rotation...
I found this little morsel referring to this decoration as My Stars buffet service. Did it appear on two lines?
A very similar pattern (if not identical?) was made by Salem China and called My Stars. The Paden City line was introduced in 1955 on the Preview shape. The Preview shape is far more appealing, in my opinion. I've only seen My Stars in ads.
Given the amount of this stuff out there, can this line be called successful?
Did the two modern shapes on the left ever come in any less traditional decorations? The flower job seems like a mismatch on those, I'd love to see them with something else. I love the wooden accents.
The shapes are great. You have to look quite a bit, but these shapes can be found in solid colors. It seems fairly difficult to find these with abstract decorations. I don't recall the last time I saw one decorated that way. It's usually this particular traditional floral.
I think it must almost approach American modern in abundance, given the amount of it seen in the wild.
This stuff is really popular now. If you have ever seen the very rare ever yours shape teapot you would probably love it. It is kind of like the Red Wing Futura Shape teapot - except it also looks sort of like of like a Dali version of a melting saxophone.
I like this line by Gilkes, although I could live without the common flower pattern decal. I would have preferred something more like Cathay for the decal. Sometimes you can find the cathay decal on the ever yours shapes although I think that was a mistake at the factory.
That's a great description of that shape!
A group of small delicate studio pottery bowls. I think these are really great, haven't been able to figure out who the artist is. They came from an estate that had a bunch of fabulous Gio Ponti furniture, so they might be Italian in origin? Any ideas about them would be greatly appreciated!
The same artist also made a small Goddess like figurine, pictured below.
Much more elegant than most of the Briard serving pieces I see out there. I believe there is a set similar to this (with a different pattern) available at the mall I sell out of.
The decorated tall beverage is so hard to find in Contempora.
I didn't realize that the tall beverage pitcher was decorated. Very, very nice!
I love the contrast between the tall canister and the wide, squat server. These Tackett pieces by Schmid are always fun and exhuberant in design.