Antique Brown Transferware Bone Dishes - Anchor Pottery Paris Elite circa 1898-early 1900s blue floral Because they were in business

Because they were in business for less than three decades

No dents to the exterior body

Most likely they were feed sack material cut into squares and repurposed into this checkerboard pattern swatch of cloth

himself - a sample tucked into a carrying case to demonstrate the pottery's design talents and craftmanship

this 1930's bowl and this 1960's decanter - all worthy of a beautifully engaging and eclectic start to your bar cart style perhaps

Antique Brown Transferware Bone Dishes - Anchor Pottery Paris Elite circa 1898-early 1900s blue floral Because they were in business{HISTORY} Back in the late 1800s, if you were setting a proper Victorian table you would not forget the bone dishes. Generally placed above the soup spoon which sat above the dinner plate, the sole function of the bone dish was to hold the discarded bones from your meal. Pretty dishware for a not very pretty element of eating, nowadays bone dishes are not part of regular meal settings but they still hold a variety of possibility when it comes to