Bea Crackle Stoneware Dinner Plate - Cream

This is a dinner plate in cream stoneware, 27.5cm across and 3cm tall, with a fine crackle running through its glossy surface and slender sprays of wild grasses and flowering stems rising across it. At 27.5cm it is a true dinner plate size, with room for a main course and its sides, rather than a side or starter plate. The outline is round but gently irregular at the rim, which gives the plate a relaxed, organic look. Stoneware is a dense, hard-wearing ceramic, and at 0.918KG this plate has a reassuring weight in the hand.

We see it as the plate for everyday dinners and for the table you lay when friends visit: a roast, pasta, a generous salad or a Sunday breakfast. The botanical pattern suits a country kitchen, a cottage dining room or a pared-back Scandinavian scheme, and the cream ground sits as comfortably beside wood, rattan and linen as it does beside plainer tableware. It also makes a handsome serving plate for bread, cake or biscuits at teatime, or for cheese and fruit on a picnic in the garden, and it would make a thoughtful gift for a new home or a keen cook.

It is made from 100% stoneware and goes in the dishwasher, which suits a busy household that would rather not wash plates by hand after every meal. It is not for the microwave or the oven, so warm food separately and plate it once it is ready. The crackle runs across the whole surface and catches the light, while the fine stems give the pattern the feel of pressed flowers without making it busy. For styling, lay it on a linen runner or a bare wooden table, pair it with a plain tumbler and simple cutlery, and stand a sprig of dried grasses in a vase down the middle to echo the motif.

What is the plate's material?

It is made from 100% stoneware, a dense and hard-wearing ceramic, finished with a fine crackle surface and a botanical pattern.

Can it go in the dishwasher?

Yes. The maker lists it as dishwasher safe, so it can go in with the rest of your everyday plates after dinner.

Can I use it in the microwave or the oven?

No. The maker lists it as neither microwave safe nor oven safe, so warm food separately and serve it on the plate once it is ready.

Is it a dinner plate or a side plate?

It is a dinner plate, 27.5cm across and 3cm tall, with room for a full main course and its accompaniments.

Is it suitable for serving food?

Yes. The maker lists it as food safe, so it suits serving and eating meals, from weeknight dinners to bread and cake at teatime.

How heavy is it?

It weighs 0.918KG, a reassuring weight for a stoneware dinner plate that feels solid in the hand.