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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 193145, member: 29&quot;]It wasn&#039;t for the poor over here. They had undecorated coarse china at best, metal platters at worst or wood if you were rural. Transferware was middle class or for the better off working classes. Transferware was indeed used in kitchens, partly for staff, but also simply as kitchen china - take the roast out, put it on a plate to rest. </p><p><br /></p><p>And yes, also used at the better end of it for breakfast and luncheon china. Patterns copied more costly Oriental wares. It was really only the upper and aristocratic familes that used commissioned and customised bone china and porcelain. Transferware wasn&#039;t all that cheap.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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