A FOLEY PORCELAIN BREAKFAST SERVICE, for the Cunard Steamship Company Limited, comprising a cube-form teapot and cover, creamer, sugar, four sherberts, four teacups, four demitasses, eight saucers, and four plates, each decorated with black, double mustard and gray bands against a cream ground, printed THE CUNARD STEAM-SHIP COMPANY LIMITED FOLEY BONE CHINA STONIERS LIVERPOOL--3in. (7.6cm.) height of teapot

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A FOLEY PORCELAIN BREAKFAST SERVICE, for the Cunard Steamship Company Limited, comprising a cube-form teapot and cover, creamer, sugar, four sherberts, four teacups, four demitasses, eight saucers, and four plates, each decorated with black, double mustard and gray bands against a cream ground, printed THE CUNARD STEAM-SHIP COMPANY LIMITED FOLEY BONE CHINA STONIERS LIVERPOOL--3in. (7.6cm.) height of teapot

cf.Garth Clark, The Eccentric Teapot, Abbeville Press, New York, 1989, pp. 56, 57 for illustrations of these models; Ocean Liners of the Past The Cunard White Star Quadruple-Screw North Atlantic Liner Queen Mary, New York Graphic Society Ltd, 1972, p. 183 for an illustration of a comparable service (28)

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The cube teapot was first designed in 1916 by R.C. Johnson and produced by George Clews and Company and was later adapted by the Cunard Line, as its form lends itself to stability and storability aboard an ocean liner

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