Cups, saucers and plates

Here are some new things for anyone who is fed up of seeing the cushions and green teacups. These saucers have little silhouettes of Mickey Mouse round the saucers. There are four cups and saucers, but no plates. The cups are plain, glossy black inside and outside; so glossy that they reflect the pattern off the saucers. 

This is a beautiful set I might call creamware - they are cream, with a moulded band of fruit or flowers, but the band is tinted a darker shade, beige maybe, The flowers in relief are not coloured, but because they stand slightly proud of the beige, they throw the colour off and look paler. The pictures genuinely don't do justice to the set, which is really lovely. I'll try to take a close up later. 

 These are some other things that  are cute more than anything else, cute but functional, of course. The glass dish has a 'flower' embedded in the clear perspex handle of the chrome lid.

The silver plated cake knife was still in the box - until I took it out. the cake plate is typical of its style. Bright white bone china with a simple pattern in clean, clear colours and black.

  The 'Retirement' cup and saucer has a pretty cottage print on it, as does the separate tea plate, but the cup is bone china while the plate is thicker - I don't know if ironstone is the right word for it. The plate is very colourful, with the orangey red, blue and chrome yellow combination that is so well suited to painting flowers.

 A sweet to finish with - a honey jar? but the honey spoon doesn't fit the lid. Maybe it's a jam or mustard dish and the honey spoon just felt attracted to it.