HEW TABLE WARE.

Putaruru Press, Volume V, Issue 176, 17 March 1927, Page 2

HEW TABLE WARE.

“ OPEN STOCK 77 CHINA. Fashions in china table ware arc bcing greatly influenced by the tendency to purchase “open stock 77 patterns — services, that is, in which any piece can be purchased separately. A desire for economy has not been tl.e primary consideration in affecting this change. The small flat and bungalow have no room for out-size dishes, the antique soup tureen, and other unwanted pieces of china. The small dining-room table, another outcome of the modern shortage of space, is again responsible for the fact that the dimensions of the dinner service have been considerably reduced. Meat and pudding plates and vegetable dishes are all being made in diminslicd sizes. There is a tremendous vogue at the present time for decorative tea (services. Ladies are always willing to replace what they arc using with any really new and pretty china that catches their fancy. In dinner ware manufacturers are finding a large demand for good reproductions of old patterns, notably Jacobean, Old English cottage, Leeds, and Chelsea designs.