Cereal Bowl Variations

There are 2 distinct diameters of Currier & Ives cereal bowls.  The smaller 6 3/8" diameter versions and the larger 6 1/2" version.   Of the larger 6 1/2" version there are two distinct shapes, the standard narrow base and the quite scarce wide base.  The larger bowls have a smaller center image than the smaller bowls.  There are variations in the sizes of these center images.  The normal center in a small bowl is 3" and the normal center in a large bowl is 2 7/8".  There are a few variations in these center images that have been found.  In the smaller bowl there is a slightly smaller image than the standard size.  It can be distinguished by the missing right hand lower corner of the roof on the school house and a slight difference to the lower section of the very bottom ground line.  There is a slightly larger center image found on some of the large bowls.   The only way I have found to differentiate them is to actually measure them.   I use the horizontal line  that abuts the bottom of the school house roof as a guideline.  On the standard bowls this measurement is 2 11/16" and on the scarcer wider variety it is  2 7/8".

There are a number of different backstamps and incised markings.  These will be updated at a later date.

Click on the below link for a thumbnail page with all of the various images of these bowl variations.

http://www.royalchinaclub.com/variations/cereal/images.html

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