We had a lot of Russel Wright dishes in the house at one time. Now there's only one divided vegetable casserole dish in Iroquois casual and copycat teardrop pitcher. There was also lots of Stangl fruit-pattern pottery, which chips and cracks easily; perhaps it's something about the red clay, which seems to be called "terra rose." This came from the hardware store. I don't know who made the cups and saucers that were yellow and hand-painted with a green-and-gold plaidlike design. There's certainly a lot of time spent in the company of tabletop items, which are so evocative when encountered again in later life in other contexts.