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Dishware is the general term for the dishes used in serving, and eating food, including plate
Plate (dishware)

A plate is a type of dishware, being a broad, concave but mainly flat vessel on which food is served. They can also be used for ceremonial value....
s and bowl
Bowl

Bowl may refer to:* Super bowl meaning final game in an NFL season* Bowl, slang meaning "to walk" in the UK: "Let's bowl"* Bowl , a common open-top vessel used to serve food...
s. Dinnerware is a synonym, especially meaning a set of dishes, including serving pieces.

The broader term Tableware
Tableware

Tableware or Table Appointments includes the dishware, glassware, and cutlerys used to set a table for eating a meal. The nature, variety, and number of objects varies from culture to culture, and may vary from meal to meal....
 includes dishes, cutlery, and drinking vessels. Flatware refers to plates and cutlery. Hollowware refers to containers like bowls and pitchers, especially if made of metal.






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Dishware is the general term for the dishes used in serving, and eating food, including plate
Plate (dishware)

A plate is a type of dishware, being a broad, concave but mainly flat vessel on which food is served. They can also be used for ceremonial value....
s and bowl
Bowl

Bowl may refer to:* Super bowl meaning final game in an NFL season* Bowl, slang meaning "to walk" in the UK: "Let's bowl"* Bowl , a common open-top vessel used to serve food...
s. Dinnerware is a synonym, especially meaning a set of dishes, including serving pieces.

The broader term Tableware
Tableware

Tableware or Table Appointments includes the dishware, glassware, and cutlerys used to set a table for eating a meal. The nature, variety, and number of objects varies from culture to culture, and may vary from meal to meal....
 includes dishes, cutlery, and drinking vessels. Flatware refers to plates and cutlery. Hollowware refers to containers like bowls and pitchers, especially if made of metal.

Modern dishes may be made of earthenware
Earthenware

Earthenware is a common ceramic material, which is used extensively for pottery tableware and decorative objects. Although body formulations vary tremendously between countries, and even between individual makers, a generic composition is 25% ball clay, 28% kaolin, 32% quartz, and 15% feldspar....
, stoneware
Stoneware

Stoneware a vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic ware of fine texture made primarily from non-refractory fire clay....
, porcelain
Porcelain

Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating raw materials, generally including clay in the form of kaolin, in a kiln to temperatures between and ....
, glass
Glass

Glass generally refers to a Hardness, brittle, transparency amorphous solid, such as that used for windows, many Glass Bottles, or eyewear, including, but not limited to, soda-lime glass, borosilicate glass, acrylic glass, sugar glass, Muscovite , or aluminium oxynitride....
, and durable plastic
Plastic

Plastic is the general common term for a wide range of synthetic or semisynthetic organic chemistry solid materials suitable for the manufacture of industrial products....
s, such as melamine resin
Melamine resin

Melamine resin or melamine formaldehyde is a hard, thermosetting plastic material made from melamine and formaldehyde by polymerization....
. Disposable dishes made of paper or lightweight plastics may be used for casual eating. Historically, dishes have also been made of wood, metals such as pewter
Pewter

Pewter is a malleable metal alloy, traditionally between 85 and 99 percent tin, with the remainder commonly consisting of copper, antimony and lead....
, and even animal skull
Skull

The skull is a bone structure found in the head of many animals. The skull supports the structures of the face and protects the head against injury....
s.

In British English
British English

British English or UK English is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere....
 the term crockery is sometimes used. In Ireland
Ireland

Ireland is the List of islands by area in Europe, and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islet....
, the word delph is common.

During the last 1940s a number of companies in the U.S.
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 started to make standardized dinnerware with "atomic" or "futuristic" designs, leading into the Mid-Century Modern
Mid-century modern

Mid-Century modern is an architectural, interior and product design form that generally describes mid-20th century developments in modern design, architecture, and urban development from roughly 1933 to 1965....
 period. Two of the most popular and prolific designs were the Starburst (dinnerware) design by and Temporama, the latter of which could be "purchased" by turning in stamps, the history of which is not specific - some say the stamps were given away by gas stations, other say it was grocery stores, and likely it was both. The designs used in these dinnerware sets continue to survive today, a major iconographic design from the 1950s that is still used today.

Types of dishes

Ice Cream Plate
*Plates
Plate (dishware)

A plate is a type of dishware, being a broad, concave but mainly flat vessel on which food is served. They can also be used for ceremonial value....
, such as dinner plates, salad plates, or bread plates
  • Bowl
    Bowl (vessel)

    A bowl is a common open-top container used in many cultures to serve food, and is also used for drinking and storing other items. They are typically small and shallow, although some, such as Punch bowls and salad bowls, are larger and often intended to serve many people....
    s, including soup bowls, cereal bowls, or dessert bowls
  • Teacup
    Teacup

    A teacup is a small cup with a handle, generally a small one that may be grasped with the thumb and one or two fingers. It is typically made of a ceramic material....
    s, saucer
    Saucer

    A saucer is a small type of dishware specifically for use with and for supporting a Drinkware - a cylindrical cup intended for coffee or a half-sphere teacup for tea....
    s and mug
    Mug

    A mug is a sturdily built type of Drinkware often used for drinking hot beverages, such as coffee, tea, or hot chocolate. Mugs, by definition, have handles and often hold a larger amount of fluid than other types of cup....
    s
  • Sugar bowl
    Sugar bowl (dishware)

    A sugar bowl is a small bowl designed for holding sugar or sugar cubes, to be served with tea or coffee in the Western tradition, that is an integral part of a tea set....
     and creamer
    Creamer

    Creamer can refer to* non-dairy creamer, a cream substitute to be used with coffee* creamer, a small Pitcher or jug designed for holding cream or milk to be served with tea or coffee in the Western tradition....
  • Serving dishes, including platter
    Platter (dishware)

    A platter is a large type of dishware used for serving food. It is a tray on which food is displayed and served to people. It can have oval, round, rectangular, or square shape....
    s, salver
    Salver

    A salver is a flat tray of silver or other metal used for carrying or serving drinkware, drinkware and dishware at table or for the presenting of a Letter or greeting card by a servant ....
    s, and tray
    Tray

    A tray is a shallow platform designed for carrying things. It is larger than a salver, a diminutive version commonly used for lighter and smaller servings, and it can be fashioned from numerous materials, including silver, brass, sheet iron, wood, melamine, and Papier-m?ch?....
    s


Dishware manufacturers include

  • Aynsley
  • Baccarat
    Baccarat (company)

    Baccarat Crystal is a manufacturer of fine Lead crystal glassware located in Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. The Mus?e Baccarat, in Paris, displays many of its finest productions....
  • Bernardaud
  • Buccellati
  • Christofle
    Christofle

    Christofle is a manufacturer of fine silver flatware and home accessories based in France since 1830. They are renowned for their sterling, silverplate and stainless flatware....
  • Churchill China
    Churchill china

    Churchill China PLC is a pottery manufacturer based in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom....
  • Couzon
    Couzon

    Couzon is a Communes of the Allier department in the Allier Departments of France in central France.It is a lovely village with a church and a community hall....
  • Dansk
  • Gibson
  • Gien (dishware)
  • Hutschenreuther
    Hutschenreuther

    Hutschenreuther is the name of the family that established the production of porcelain in Northern Bavaria, in 1814. Hutschenreuther was a trend-setter and enabled Germany to gain an excellent reputation in the European porcelain industry....
  • International
  • Kosta Boda
  • Lenox
  • Lladro
    Lladró

    Lladr? is a Spain company based in Tavernes Blanques, Valencia , that produces high quality porcelain figurines....
  • Meissen porcelain
    Meissen porcelain

    Meissen porcelain is the first European hard-paste porcelain that was developed from 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus. After his untimely death that October, Johann Friedrich B?ttger, continued his work and brought porcelain to the market, and he has often been credited with the invention....
  • Noritake
    Noritake

    is one of the pottery maker. The company's head office is in Nagoya, Aichi in Aichi Prefecture, Japan.Noritake Co., Limited, commonly known as "Noritake," grew out of a trading company established in Tokyo and in New York City by the Morimura Brothers in 1876....
  • Queen's
    Churchill china

    Churchill China PLC is a pottery manufacturer based in Stoke-on-Trent in the United Kingdom....
  • Rosenthal
    Rosenthal

    Rosenthal is a name of German language origin, meaning rose valley, and may refer to:* Rosenthal, Hesse, in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district* Rosenthal , a part of Berlin, Germany...
  • Royal Copenhagen
    Royal Copenhagen

    Royal Copenhagen, officially the Royal Porcelain Factory is a manufacturer of porcelain products and was founded in Copenhagen 1 May 1775 under the protection of Juliana Maria of Brunswick-Wolfenb?ttel....
  • Royal Crown Derby
    Royal Crown Derby

    The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Company is a porcelain manufacturer, based in Derby, England. The company, particularly known for its high-quality bone china, has produced tableware and ornamental items since approximately 1750....
  • Royal Doulton
    Royal Doulton

    The Royal Doulton Company is one of the most renowned England companies producing tableware and collectables, with a history dating back to 1815....
  • Royal Worcester
    Royal Worcester

    Royal Worcester manufactures bone china and in particular porcelain.Founded in Worcester, England in 1751, the factory was established on the banks of the River Severn by a group of local businessmen, with the guidance of Dr John Wall, an eminent physician....
  • Spode
    Spode

    File:Spode_1.JPGFile:Spode_3.JPGSpode is an England manufacturer of pottery and porcelain, based in Stoke-on-Trent....
  • Villeroy & Boch
    Villeroy & Boch

    Villeroy & Boch...
  • Waterford Crystal
    Waterford Crystal

    Waterford Crystal is a trademark brand of Lead crystal glassware, produced in Waterford, Republic of Ireland, and in recent years in other locations, by the company Waterford Wedgwood plc., previously trading as Waterford Glass Ltd....
  • Wedgwood
    Wedgwood

    Wedgwood, strictly Josiah Wedgwood and Sons, is a British pottery firm, originally founded in 1759 by Josiah Wedgwood, which in 1987 merged with Waterford Crystal, creating Waterford Wedgwood, the Ireland-based luxury brands group....


See also


  • Cutlery
    Cutlery

    Cutlery refers to any hand implement used in preparing, serving, and especially eating food in the Western world. It is more usually known as Silver or flatware in the United States, where cutlery can have the more specific meaning of knives and other cutting instruments....
  • Drinkware
    Drinkware

    Drinkware, or beverageware, is a general term for Vessel....
  • List of eating utensils
    List of eating utensils

    This is a list of eating and serving implements.* Chopsticks* Drinking straws* Fork* Knife* Knork* Splayd* Spoon* Spork* Tongs...
  • Table setting
    Table setting

    Table setting refers to the way to set a table with tableware—such as eating utensils and dishware—for serving and eating. The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting....
  • Tableware
    Tableware

    Tableware or Table Appointments includes the dishware, glassware, and cutlerys used to set a table for eating a meal. The nature, variety, and number of objects varies from culture to culture, and may vary from meal to meal....
  • Silver (household)
    Silver (household)

    Household silver or silverware refers to dishware, cutlery and other household items made of sterling silver, Britannia silver or Sheffield plate silver....