Antique Ironstone Sugar Bowl - Octogan Shape with Handles and Lid - Gold Detailing pansies both in their Nippon days

both in their Nippon days and their eventual famous Noritake days are favorites here in the shop

The exterior cover boards (at the spine creases) bear the most wear and tear

- Raised feet (pedestal style) underneath each egg cup

it serves equally well as an art piece and a functional sugar bowl for your tea service

wonderful warmth

Antique Ironstone Sugar Bowl - Octogan Shape with Handles and Lid - Gold Detailing pansies both in their Nippon daysEven when she had to make someone a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an armchair or some table silver or a walking stick, she would choose 'antiques,' as though their long desuetude had effaced from them any semblance of utility and fitted them rather to instruct us in the lives of the men of other days than to serve the common requirements of our own. Marcel Proust {HISTORY} Tumbling through time from another era, making the