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Bone China identification

3 years ago

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I found this at a thrift shop and love it so much I want to purchase several more. There is no identifying mark on it and image searches have been fruitless. Does anyone recognize the pattern or know who made this? It won't let me post a photo, so see the comments...

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3 years ago
maifleur03
3 years ago
If no one identifies it start looking for pictures of that distinctive handle. That should help you identify the company. I had a small tea set purchased from a museum store with a similar handle but have no other information.
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bpath
3 years ago
It's so pretty, I hope you can find more. And that is a very interesting handle, I wonder if pieces with it survived. Try searching at replacements.com.
lindac92
3 years ago
Most likely not bone china but porcelain.....and likely Japanese. Those ideas might help you in your search.
There were sooooo many patterns of porcelain tea sets made in the past 100 years, it will be a large stroke of luck if you can ID it and find more.
maifleur03
3 years ago
Probably wrong but when I was looking for more pieces of my museum store set the information I found was that the handles were made by pressing a form against the "mother" material which was in rolled sheets rather than using a molded pattern. This gave the angular shape although your look a little more rounded but that could be caused by differing glazes.

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