A creamware Miniature or Toy Dinner Service, William Hackwood, Staffordshire, circa 1830
This delightful creamware miniature or toy dinner service comprises 24 pieces, including two tureens, covers and stands, six soup plates, six dinner plates, two pierced dishes, a saucer dish, and three graduated oval platters or stands. They were manufactured by the firm of William Hackwood (1774-1849) at his works in Eastwood, Hanley.
All impressed HACKWOOD, except the two pierced dishes, one soup plate, the saucer dish, and the small tureen base.
Condition: Good condition with no restoration. There is some typical crazing to the glaze, and minor potting and firing flaws. Two soup plates, two dinner plates, and one pierced dish each has a short, faint hairline. The saucer dish has a short hairline to the rim and also a bruise to the foot rim. The middle size of the oval platters or stands has a hairline, and there is a tiny hairline to the handle on the cover of the smallest tureen. There is a minute patch of wear to the glaze on one of the handles of this tureen. The cover of the larger tureen has a small chip to the inner flange. The remains of tiny stilt marks show how the wares were stacked in the kiln during the firing process.
Dimensions: Soup plates – Diameter 8.7 cm, Height 1.6 cm; dinner plates – Diameter 8.5 cm; saucer dish – Diameter 7.7 cm; pierced dishes – Diameter 10.8 cm, Height 1.5 cm; three graduated oval platters – Width 9 cm, 10.5 cm and 12 cm; smallest tureen, cover and stand – Height 6 cm (minus stand), Width of stand 9 cm; larger tureen, cover and stand – Height 9 cm (minus stand), Width of stand 12 cm.
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