Featured Help identifying this set, the saucer has a handle.

Picked this up in an estate sale last weekend. I’ve never seen a saucer with a handle before. The cup has a rounded spout. Does anyone know what this is called. Google lens gives me nothing. The piece is also marked Cauldon England in black and 5385 in red. Any help with date or pattern would also be fantastic.

 

I'm going to use me imagination about this one. I think it's a sort of feeding cup. The cup has a shallow spout opposite its handle. The handle on the saucer would make it easier to hold.

Very pretty.

 

I thought the same.

Yes it is. A delicate charm, yet functional.

 

It looks like an accident waiting to happen. All the invalid cups I've seen have teapot-like spouts.

 

Cauldon Ltd (thepotteries.org) The potteries.org is always great for this kind of info

 

What's the capacity of it? 5385 is the pattern number, the other is a piecework decorator's mark.

 

The spout looks too wide to be a feeding cup. It could possibly be some type of sauce cup and saucer. I would bet that it has a specific use, but I can't think of what it is, other than what I just stated. But then, invalid feeders are for broth, maybe this was meant for some other type of nourishment. Something thick that wouldn't spill down the front of your shirt.

 

That's why I asked about capacity. It looks like bread sauce or redcurrant jelly, say, to me. Handle so you can pass it to the next person along.

 

OBB, does it bother you that the handle is so flat to the surface? I thought that it might be a little awkward to pick up, but for passing it would be fine - one person holds the handle and the next grabs the saucer, or vice versa.

 

From your picture of the bottom I'm assuming the saucer is not attached to the cup part. Were they attached it would be so much more stable for passing.

I did wonder if they actually go together, certainly part of the same service, but a cup like that would surely need some sort of saucer. I was trying to imagine something that might do with a wide pouring "spout". Melted butter? Hollandaise?

 

No, the flatness doesn't worry me. As you say, perfect for passing along.

 

Does appear to be some sort of small sauce boat. Perhaps was part of a small luncheon set? I, for one, would love to serve custard out of it!

 

I think the sauce boat and passing handle is the ticket. I tried visualizing holding it for an invalid feeding and it seemed the saucer handle would be awkward to hold while feeding someone but i could see its advantage in a "passing" aid.

 

It holds about 6 ounces.

 

I'd go with melted butter or such in that case.