Antique Noritake Porcelain Soup Bowls Thelma Bassett Pattern circa 1920s - Set of Four french cookbooks - Large and small sizes

- Large and small sizes

and caramelized onions

These marks of time do not affect the use of the bowl in any way

baking a pine needle upside down cake

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Antique Noritake Porcelain Soup Bowls Thelma Bassett Pattern circa 1920s - Set of Four french cookbooks - Large and small sizes{HISTORY} Meet Thelma Bassett, the antique dish pattern made by Noritake during the 1920s. We searched high and low for some insight or a snippet of a story lead regarding the name of this pattern but couldn't find one bit of info. Was Thelma Bassett a famous actress of the 1910s and 1920s? A worker at the Noritake pottery? A muse for one of the dish decorators? Any and all of these are possible, but it seems for now at least she is a veritable