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Restaurant China Materials
Restaurant
ware or the generic term restaurant china
where china is used interchangeably with tableware is made of many materials. These
include:
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porcelain (usually from Europe, Asia, or South America)
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vitrified china (generally made in
North America, particularly the USA, though Asia, Africa, Australia and
Europe each have one or more manufacturers of this ceramic body; certainly
the standard and most collectible commercial ware)
Vitrified china cup and saucer (photo courtesy of Lynn Stein)
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bone china (most often English, some German and Japanese, and recently added to
the Oneida line)
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earthenware (non-vitrified
china; 1800s
and fairly early 1900s)
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stoneware (hand thrown on potter's wheel by Heath Ceramics of Sausalito, CA)
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glass (Anchor Hocking's Fire King,
Corning's Pyrex, and others)
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glass-ceramic (Corning's Pyroceram)
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glass laminate (Corning's Comcor)
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plastic (injection molded or
Melmac; Plastics Inc., Plastics Mfg. Co. and others)
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pewter-like metal
(Bon Chef, Inc. and others)
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silver plate
(most silver-plate manufacturers)
Collectors sometimes specialize in ware of one or more of these body materials
(e.g., jeffpyrex probably has the largest and most definitive Pyrex
restaurant ware collection in existence).
Others would prefer to think restaurant ware is made only in a ceramic body. Contrary testimony appears in manufacturer catalogs. Catalog pages of
at least one manufacturer of each material mentioned are illustrated in Restaurant China
Volume 2.
© Barbara J. Conroy
Updated 09/14/06
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