This coordinating 30-piece Italian dinner service brings together romantic landscapes, intricate floral borders, and softly scalloped edges—pieces to gather around for Sunday lunches, holiday dinners, and evenings that stretch well beyond dessert.
Each plate features a blue transfer-printed scene of Gothic ruins, leafy trees, and grazing cattle against a creamy white ground. Floral scrollwork frames the scene, creating a beautifully layered setting when the three sizes are presented together.
Made by N.I.C.E. of the Mondovì ceramics tradition in Piedmont, Italy, the plates carry the crowned lion NICE Extra Stone backstamp.
This service includes 10 dinner plates, 10 soup/pasta plates, and 10 dessert/salad plates, for a total of 30 pieces.
Additional plates in each of the three sizes are available by request at an additional cost.
Measurements
Dinner plates, 10: approximately 9.25 inches diameter × 1 inch high / 23.5 × 2.5 cm.
Soup/pasta plates, 10: approximately 9.25 inches diameter × 1.5 inches high / 22.9 × 3.8 cm.
Dessert/salad plates, 10: approximately 7.5 inches diameter × 1 inch high / 19.1 × 2.5 cm.
Condition
New old stock: unused vintage plates with manufacturing variations and signs of storage.
The blue transfer decoration varies in intensity and definition, with areas of blurred detail, smudging, or color bleed. Some rims have small areas of glaze loss, shallow edge abrasions, and rough patches, as illustrated in the close-up photographs. These imperfections are present despite the plates’ unused status.
Please review all photographs carefully, particularly the rim details, as they form part of the condition description.
History of the Maker
N.I.C.E., originally Nuova Industria Ceramica sull’Ellero, belongs to the longstanding ceramics tradition of Mondovì in Piedmont, Northern Italy. Recorded under Primo Silvestrini from 1932, the business continued under the Silvestrini Pianetta name from 1966. This service reflects the region’s production of decorative domestic tableware, here with a romantic landscape inspired by English transferware.
Mid-20th-century Italian dinner service, exact date unknown.
Ways to Use
Set all ten places for a leisurely Italian lunch, using the deep plates for a first course of pasta or risotto, followed by dinner and dessert. Pair with white linen and silver flatware for a celebration, or woven placemats and garden flowers for a relaxed country table.
For out-of-the-box ideas, use the smaller plates beneath individual cheese selections or miniature desserts, and arrange a few landscape plates on a kitchen dresser or wall between gatherings.
Duty Notice
The majority of our items are sourced in France and Italy and shipped from Italy. FOR BUYERS RECEIVING SHIPMENTS IN THE UNITED STATES: The policy regarding import duties on goods shipped to the U.S. from the EU has changed multiple times in the past two years, and therefore we cannot predict if you will have to pay a duty to your post man or at your post office to receive your package. We continue shipping to the U.S. so that you still have access to the unique items we source.