Vintage Vernonware Raffia Tea Set, 3 Vernonware Tea Cups with Sugar Bowl, 1953 Vernon Kilns California, Vintage Mugs, Tea Cups, hot Sugar Bowl

A cool retro California tea set hot — 3 Vintage Vernonware Raffia Cups and Saucers with matching covered Sugar Bowl — manufactured at Vernon Kilns, California, USA.

They feature a brush stroke plaid design in green and brown called the Raffia pattern.

Excellent vintage condition

Measures
3 x cups
Holds 6oz./150 ml
10 cm/4" diameter
5 cm/2" tall

3 x saucers
15 cm/6' diameter

1 x sugar bowl
18.5 cm/7.25" handle to handle
11 cm/4.25" bowl diameter
7 cm/2.75" tall

Perfect for collectors or everyday use.

Vernon Kilns was pottery company in the industrial town of Vernon that made a huge variety of California-style pottery from 1931 to 1958. Along with fine-art pottery, figurines and specialty items, it cranked out mountains of dinnerware that filled the postwar cupboards of many a suburban home, particularly in the West, where they were heavily marketed.

Of note, Vernonware's hand-painted brown and yellow plaid design, called Organdie, was the pattern of dish Rose's granddaughter used early in the movie “Titanic” as she served tea for her now-aged grandmother.