BESPOKE CATERING TABLEWARE
Catering tableware has to be designed to withstand the rigours of commercial dishwashers. To us as bone china manufacturers, this essentially means that we utilise colours that fuse into the underlying glaze - in-glaze colours that we fire on at temperatures in excess of 1000°Centigrade. True cobalt blue is the classic example. This requires precise technical control of production, but the result is outstandingly beautiful. When we receive it, the cobalt oxide powder looks a soft mauve colour. When we mix in our printing oils, it looks almost black. But when we fire, the cobalt oxide diffuses into the clear glaze to generate the most beautiful (cobalt) blue colour that we see in stained glass windows.
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| Our bone china tableware decoration 'Bruges Lace, black' | Our bone china tableware decoration 'Venice, cobalt blue' | Our bone china tableware decoration 'Bruges Lace, apricot' |
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| Above 'Bruges Lace' personalised for Thai Palace | Above 'Venice' personalised for a Hotel | 'Bruges Lace' suite for a Restaurant |
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| Badged tableware for a restaurant attached to a church | Cobalt blue logo and edge line for prominent seafood restaurant | Royal Cornwall Yacht Club's bone china tableware suite |
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| 'Fish' designed by our in-house Artist for both domestic and rigorous catering use. | An unusual bone china service of tableware for an educational establishment, with each item featuring the flattened-out cutting plan of lay-flat boxes. Cobalt blue on white. | |
When invited to produce the tableware for a large hotel some years ago, we asked the directors to see their kitchen - and as soon as we saw the extremely rough handling of the existing tableware by their staff we immediately advised that they should stick with similar heavy and robust ware. But if you have a Guest House, Hotel or Restaurant where your staff have been properly trained with both food creation and the ware they serve it on, and you wish to display a touch of class to your clientele, then bone china tableware is the far superior product, and would be right for you.