Home Tableware & Barware | Vintage Currier & Ives Blue & White Dinnerware Service for Twelve- 109 Pieces - EK81471

Scenes of days gone by... sledding, horse drawn carriages, steam boats decorated in blue and white by Royal China. Unique set with picturesque lithograph print depicting a different scene per type of item.

Set includes 109 pieces and has service for 12 with a few extras.

17 Dinner Plates, 10", Old Grist Mill
12 Salad / Lunch Plates, 7.25", Washington's Birthplace
12 Bread / Butter Plates, 6.68", Harvest
12 Couple Soup Rimmed Bowls, 8.5", Early Winter
12 Dessert Bowls, 5.58", Old Farm Gate
20 Flat Tea Cups, 2.18", Lady in Horse Drawn Carriage
12 Saucers, 6.25", Steamboat
1 Teapot
2 Cream / Sugar
1 Butter Dish (top and bottom)
1 Two Tier Serving Tray 6.38"
1 Oval Platter 13", Old Winter
1 Round Platter, 12", Getting Ice
1 Gravy Boat, Two Spout
1 Casserole Bowl Two Handles 7.34"
1 Round Vegetable Bowl, 9", Maple Sugaring
1 Round Vegetable Bowl, 10", Home Sweet Home
1 Morning Pie Plate, 10", Snowy Morning

The artists, Nathaniel Currier & James Merritt Ives, were successful American printmakers from the late 1800s.The artists produced lithograph prints from paintings. Lithographs could be reproduced quickly and inexpensively.Why were these prints used for the dinnerware? It was all Americana. The lithographs represented every phase of American life including city life, rural scenes, historical scenes, ships yachts, rivers, railroads, politics, comedy, winter, summer, spring, fall, hunting fishing, well you get the idea. Currier & Ives moved to use the lithographs as promo items in one of the best marketing tools of its times.The lithographs were a perfect match with dinnerware.

The dinnerware is one of the most widely recognized and collectible dish patterns ever made. It was produced by the Royal China Company of Sebring, Ohio, between 1949 and 1986. During its 37-year history, millions of pieces were made, and all of them were decorated with scenes by Currier and Ives.