Neutral white/gold design, very functional hot serving dish with lid
Great for hot vegetables a.k.a baby spuds were our favourite to put into this dish
DLAT Rating 7/10 (DLAT means Darling Look At This!)
Potter is unknown - barely any backstamp ID at all
Base of the dish has only the words (green)
Made In Cechoslovakia (within a circle)
Lid (underside) for the dish has handwritten in black
16867 and then something like two strokes
These marks are all under the glaze, not applied later.
Pure white china with gold decoration
The china is translucent (you can see your fingers through the clay)
Date? No idea really - we obtained this dish back in the 1970's (it wasn't new then) because it was simple, easily matches whatever "theme" we were using on the dinner table and it looks nice and clean/fresh.
Two types of decoration have been used, there is a patterned band all the way around the dish which is gold coloured but it looks to be transferware.
The handles at each end though have hand applied gold gilding, nothing fancy, just short "dashes" which have been applied quite heavily.
There is also a gold band all around the base, again this looks to be transferware and not hand applied
Similar for the lid, there is the main transferware band and the lid handle has the hand applied gold gilding
Measurements: 235mm length x 170mm wide x 50mm high INSIDE (this dish can hold quite a pile of hot spuds for example!)
CONDITION:
NO cracks
NO discolouration
NO wear evident to ANY of the decoration, both the transferware or the gold gilding
You may notice a sort of ring inside at the base, this seems to be from the manufacture because it is NOT a stain - it is as though the potter made the main body and the base separately and then joined them together.
Most of the china or porcelain ware items we had were English origin but we did have a small amount of china from "The Continent" and these are just as good as the English china, just not so "arty" - basic functional china.
