Saucers
Saucer Information
Saucer – AD (After Dinner) Demitasse (Round and Stick Handle) – No longer in production
Measures 4-7/8″ diameter x 1″ height
Item Number: 0477
Backstamp Style: Ink stamp
Introduced 2000
Discontinued 12/2015
Produced in the following colors – White, Black, Rose, Apricot, Cobalt Blue, Yellow, Turquoise, Periwinkle Blue, Sea Mist Green, Lilac, Persimmon, Chartreuse, Pearl Gray, Juniper, Cinnabar, Sunflower, Plum, Shamrock, Tangerine, Scarlet, Peacock, Heather, Evergreen, Ivory, Lemongrass, Paprika, Marigold, Flamingo, Lapis, Poppy, Slate, Sage
It was NOT produced in the following colors – Sapphire, Chocolate, Claret and all colors produced after Claret.
- The illustration to the left shows a clear glazed saucer (left) alongside a White glazed saucer (right). Instead of applying a color glaze, HLC will sometimes apply clear glaze to the bisque piece to obtain more of a natural/neutral look.
- Candy Fagerlin was lucky to obtain the first prototype AD saucer which was initialed by Jonathan Parry, HLC’s Art Director at that time, as illustrated to the right (Photo courtesy of the Candy Fagerlin family The Little Round Table)
- The illustration to the left shows both Post 86 and Vintage saucers reverse side. Notice, the Post 86 foot (left) is unglazed which is known as a dry foot. The Vintage foot (right) is glazed which is also known as a wet foot and has 3 sagger pin marks.
- The Vintage AD saucer will be stamped with an ink backstamp. It is not uncommon to find them without a backstamp at all, as shown in the illustration (right).
Vintage AD saucer measures – 5-3/16” diameter x 0-3/4” height
- In fact, you will occasionally find Post 86 AD saucers without a backstamp as shown in the illustration to the right.
Saucer – Cup
Measures 5-7/8″ diameter x 0-7/8″ height
Item Number: 0470
Backstamp Style: Ink stamp
Introduced 1986
Produced in the following colors – White, Black, Rose, Apricot, Cobalt Blue, Yellow, Turquoise, Periwinkle Blue, Sea Mist Green, Lilac, Persimmon, Sapphire, Chartreuse, Pearl Gray, Juniper, Cinnabar, Sunflower, Plum, Shamrock, Tangerine, Scarlet, Peacock, Heather, Evergreen, Ivory, Chocolate, Lemongrass, Paprika, Marigold, Flamingo, Lapis, Poppy, Slate, Sage, Claret, Daffodil, Mulberry, Meadow, Butterscotch, Twilight, Peony, Jade, Sky
It was NOT produced in Foundry.
- Clear glazed saucers are known to exist. HLC will sometimes apply a clear glaze to the bisque piece, instead of applying a color glaze, to obtain more of a natural/neutral look.
- Like so many of the other Amberstone/Casualstone/Fiesta® Ironstone (right) and Vintage (center) pieces, the saucers will have a wet foot (glazed) and sagger marks where Post 86 (left) will have a dry foot (unglazed) as illustrated above.
Vintage – measures 6-1/16″ diameter x 3/4” height
Amberstone/Casualstone/Fiesta® Ironstone – measures 6-1/4” diameter x 3/4” height
(Amberstone not shown)
- There are six different versions of the Vintage saucer. Did you know that? Yeah, I was shocked too.
- The next three illustrations show the six versions.
Version 1 (left)
Version 2 (right)
- Note the rings inside the foot and just outside the foot. Version 1’s inside rings are more spread out than version 2. Also, the rings outside the foot on version 1 has multiple rings where version 2 only has 1. These will not have a backstamp.
Version 3 (left)
Version 4 (right)
- In these two versions, the wet foot has been reduced in size and the number of rings inside the foot have been reduced. Version 3 the rings are tighter than Version 4’s. Ink backstamps.
Version 5 (left)
Version 6 (right)
- The rings inside the foot have been reduced to just two rings. Version 5 has one ring by the rim of the saucer where version 6 has two rings by the rim. Ink backstamps.
Jumbo Saucer – No longer in production
Measures 6-3/4′ diameter x 5/16″ height
Item Number: 0293
Backstamp Style: HLC ink stamp – not marked Fiesta® (see below)
Introduced 1994
Discontinued 5/2013
Produced in the following colors – White, Black, Rose, Apricot, Cobalt Blue, Yellow, Turquoise, Periwinkle Blue, Sea Mist Green, Lilac, Persimmon, Sapphire, Chartreuse, Pearl Gray, Juniper, Cinnabar, Sunflower, Plum, Shamrock, Tangerine, Scarlet, Peacock, Heather, Evergreen, Ivory, Chocolate, Lemongrass, Paprika, Marigold, Flamingo.
It was NOT produced in the following colors – Lapis and all colors produced after Lapis.
- Clear glazed jumbo saucers are known to exist. Instead of applying a color glaze, HLC will sometimes apply clear glaze to the bisque piece to obtain more of a natural/neutral look.
- When Fiesta® was reintroduced in 1986, this item was not part of the Fiesta® line, it was part of the HLC foodservice line. Occasionally HLC would glaze various restaurant ware shapes for their commercial customers in Fiesta® color glazes. The overruns or seconds would then be sold at HLC’s retail outlet store. Hence the “Fiesta® Mates” name was adopted. This piece was moved over to be an official Fiesta® shape in 1994.
- Like the jumbo cup, this item was not identified as a Fiesta® piece. It will have one of the numerous HLC ink backstamps as illustrated to the right, (right/left).
- As this piece is used in HLC’s restaurant ware division (Colorations line) and the backstamp is added before the glaze is applied, HLC decided not to change the backstamp to a Fiesta® one. However, in 1995 someone put a Fiesta® backstamp on the jumbo saucers instead of an HLC backstamp as illustrated (center).
- You will notice in the illustration to the left that even though the jumbo saucer has a couple of rings on the very outer edge, the rings may not always show due to the glaze being applied a little heavier than others. This does not change the value of the piece.
- Be careful when purchasing your Evergreen jumbo saucer. The illustration to the right shows there are two different Evergreen glazes produced at HLC. The Evergreen on the left was for their foodservice division. The Evergreen on the right is the Fiesta® Evergreen.
