Adams - Dinner service (28) - Minuet - Real English Ironstone

Adams Minuet dinnerware set — Real English Ironstone porcelain, Staffordshire, classic black-and-white motif

Description

A set that gathers several formats of the "Minuet" service, the design Adams & Sons inherited from the nineteenth-century lithographs of J. Meir & Son and reinterpreted in their own Staffordshire manufacturing, with classic scenes of buildings and lakeside landscapes in black and white.

Produced by William Adams & Sons, firm founded in 1657 and a member of the Wedgwood group, each piece is stamped as "Real English Ironstone" and "Member of the Wedgwood Group," which places its manufacture after 1966.

Contents of the lot

• 5 flat plates of 25.5 cm
• 7 flat plates of 23.5 cm
• 7 flat plates of 20.5 cm
• 6 deep plates of 22.5 cm
• 1 oval platter of 29.5 cm
• 2 oval platters of 34.5 cm

Condition

All pieces show crazing, typical of the porcelain of their era.

Measurements

• Flat plates: 25.5 cm / 23.5 cm / 20.5 cm in diameter (depending on size)
• Deep plates: 22.5 cm in diameter
• Oval platters: 29.5 cm and 34.5 cm