Homer Laughlin Rhythm Sauce Berry Bowls Gray Laurel
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This is a sauce or berry bowl , made by the Homer Laughlin China Company. While Homer Laughlin is well known for their Fiesta wear they made hundreds if not thousands of other dinnerware patterns over the last 135 years. Homer Laughlin is still in operation today.
This pattern is called Gray Laurel and it can be found on at least 2 different shapes. The pieces I am offering are on the rhythm shape. The pieces more commonly found can be identified on the Debutante shape. There are 4 bowls available.
These bowls measure 5 3/8" wide and approximately 1 1/4" tall. The base color is a creamy white with pale gray leaves and a soft rosy red for the berries.
They are marked with the Homer Laughlin Rhythm Back Stamp and are identified as having been produced in November or 1953.
They are in good to very good condition with no chips, cracks or nicks. There is the very beginning of some under glaze crazing on the bottom of one of them but the others seem fine. There is normal wear on the bottoms where they would rest on the table of shelf and some very minor scratching. At the worst I would call them lightly worn.