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This is a cup and saucer set from the Turtle Dove pattern of dinnerware. The cup is decorated with the handpainted Turtle Dove design. The saucer is also decorated on top with the handpainted Turtle Dove design and glazed on the bottom with the Turtle Dove shade of brown.

Turtle Dove is a hand-painted design reminiscent of fine stenciling from well to do country homes. It depicts two stylized birds atop a floral motif in shades of brown and mustard on a tan fleck background.

"Turtle Dove Dinnerware," begins a brochure, "Butternut brown and golden yellow interwoven into this traditional pattern by Red Wing. Serving pieces are the same tan fleck as the background of the decorated pieces and are topped with covers of golden yellow."

Red Wing Potteries introduced their Duo-Tone line of dinnerware in 1962. This line was also called the Cylinder line because many of the serving pieces were fashioned in a cylindrical, non-tapering shape. Even the flatware had edges that curved vertically, with a cylindrical impression.

All Duo-Tone designs are hand-painted, oven-proof, colorfast and detergent safe.

Red Wing Potteries gradually converted from producing stoneware to dinnerware and art pottery. Starting in the 1930's and through their closure in 1967, Red Wing Potteries produced over a hundred different dinnerware patterns. Forms ranged from traditional shapes to the whimsical. Patterns included every design from floral motifs to the abstract. They produced heavy ceramic, fine china and economy dinnerware sets. Some patterns consisted of mostly flatware with few serving pieces. Some patterns consisted of only serving pieces. Other patterns had both.

On the bottom of most Red Wing dinnerware pieces you will find three little dots. These dots are left in the glaze by the little tripod that the Potteries used to support the piece when they fired it in the kiln. The three dots are not damage, they are a remnant of the manufacturing process and authenticate the piece as being actual Red Wing.

Parts

Part	Measurements
Cup	3.00 in (7.62 cm) Height 3.00 in (7.62 cm) Diameter
Saucer	6.20 in (15.75 cm) Diameter

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View of top of both the cup and the saucer.

Another view of the cup and the saucer.

Turtle Dove cup and saucer set.