Gladding McBean – Franciscan El Patio
Plates and Bowls
The base of any dinnerware line has to be what goes on the
table three times a day, the bowls and plates.
For it's first dinnerware, GMcB decided on a simple, uncluttered design that allowed the glazes and colors to
take the starring role.
The bowls came in three basic shapes, lipped, tab handled and footed.
Older styled footed bowls.
Oatmeal bowls, small (Mexican blue) and large (orange) and
small salad or vegetable (apple green) and large salad( bright yellow glossy).
The newer style of lipped bowls.
Fruit or desert bowl (pale yellow glossy), cereal bowl (grape),
oval vegetable (burgundy), lipped vegetable (golden glow).
Salad Bowls - Tab handled golden glow, small round maroon
and large bright yellow glossy
Vegetable bowls - oval (apple green) and round (golden glow).
Soup bowls - cream soup (pale yellow glossy) and
onion or tab handled soup (redwood).
Ramkins - used for custard or anything you might bake in individual serving.
Covered casseroles - individual casserole (burgundy) and
tab handled covered casserole (apple green).
A rainbow of individual casseroles.
We have seen these
refered to as "chile bowls" when they sold without the lid.
Tab handled covered casserole on the left, large salad on the right.
Egg cup (pale yellow glossy) and custard cup (redwood).
custard cups in apple green and golden glow
Golden glow onion soup on a salad plate? WRONG!
That was my guess when
Garbriel sent me this picture.
It is the large salad bowl on a huge
17 inch plate-platter. Wow!
El Patio Plates were made in 5 standard sizes. Dinner, luncheon, salad, dessert and bread.
Dimensions are shown at the bottom of the page.
The plate on the left was made in the 1930's and is the wide rim old style.
The one on the right was made in the 1940's after it was redesigned and
has a smaller rim. This is easier to see in the larger image.
Incredible 17" platter on the left,
normal 10.5 inch dinner on the right.
The Dinner plate shown is the large plate from the golden glow set show on this page.
El Patio Chop plates are coupe shaped, and were produced in three sizes.
Platters were commonly oval and rim shaped, and had two standard sizes.
There are more pictures of chop plates and platters in the serving pieces section.
Party plates! Each set included a plate with a cup well, and a cup, tumbler or mug.
Dimension
Bowls
Small Oatmeal- footed 5"
Large Oatmeal - footed 5 5/8"
Cream soup - footed 6 1/8" (includes handles)
Small Salad - footed 8 3/8"
Large Salad - footed 11"
Fruit - lipped 5 1/8"
Cereal - lipped 6"
Round vegetable - lipped 7 1/2"
Round vegetable - lipped 8 7/8"
Oval vegetable - lipped 9" x 6"
Onion soup -tab handled 5 7/8" (includes handles)
Large covered casserole - tab handled 8 7/8"
Large salad - tab handled 12" (includes handles)
Small long handled casserole 5 1/8" X 9"
Bread & Butter 6 3/8"
Cake 7 3/8"
Salad 8 3/8"
Lunch 9 1/4"
Dinner 10 3/8"
Small Platter 11 1/2" X 8 1/2"
Large Platter 13 1/8" X 10 1/8"
Small Chop 12"
Medium Chop 14"
Large Chop 16"
Large Rimmed Service Plate (don't know correct name) 16 3/4"
3 Part Relish 9 1/4"
Large Relish 14 1/4"
Redwood Candlesticks 3 5/8" at base X 2 7/8" tall
Cobalt Candlesticks 4 1/2" at base X 3 1/2" tall
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