W. Adams & Sons Blue Willow Creamer and Covered Sugar Bowl, Staffordshire, 5"

A creamer and a covered sugar bowl in Blue Willow. A pagoda under the trees on one side, two birds flying toward each other on the other, and a fretwork border running around every rim. The sugar bowl's lid is topped with a little bird.

This pair has been passed across a table before. Maybe at Sunday tea at a grandmother's house. Maybe on a breakfast tray carried upstairs. Maybe in a china cabinet, brought out only when company came.

They don't just hold cream and sugar. They make an ordinary cup of tea feel like an occasion.

Blue Willow creamer and two-handled covered sugar bowl, W. Adams & Sons, Staffordshire, England. Both marked "Warranted Staffordshire, W. Adams & Sons, England" on the base. About 5" tall. Small brown spots and glaze flecks on the creamer, and age staining around the foot rims, shown in the photos.

For the tea drinker, the blue-and-white collector, or the kitchen that needs one good thing on the open shelf. #followthefeeling @tallmadge_ave_vintage

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