Famiware Mercury Plates and Bowls Sets with Mugs Set

Dishwasher and microwave, the pack says. The oven gets no such line, so keep the set out of one. That covers most of a real week: the mug at a desk, the bowl holding soup, plates set down with the solid thump of stoneware. It is the everyday half of the Mercury collection, the pieces you reach for first.

Here is the trade. Stoneware is dense, so these are heavy pieces, and heavy pieces chip when they meet a hard edge. One careless clink against the faucet leaves a pale nick on a rim. That nick is part of the history now. Give the pieces room in the cupboard so rims do not knock, and the rest is simply using them: weekly soup, morning coffee.