Yanco Ocean Collection

Ocean is Yanco's blue-and-white glazed china: a white body with a faded blue rim and a grainy, textured surface rather than a gloss. Thirty-four items are listed, and the mix leans hard toward service: alongside the coupe plates there are ramen bowls, a 60 oz menudo bowl, sushi plates, a skillet bowl with a matching compartment plate, a tea cup and a spoon. It is a working pattern for a kitchen sending out hot bowls.

What's in the Ocean line

• Round coupe plates at 7", 9", 10 1/2" and 12"
• Coupe-shape oval plates at 8", 10", 12" and 14", plus a 16" x 11" oval plate
• Rectangular plates at 8" x 5 1/2", 10" x 7" and 12" x 8 1/4", and rectangular sushi plates at 10" x 4 1/4" and 11 1/2" x 5 1/2"
• Deep plates at 7" (10 oz), 8" (14 oz) and 9" (18 oz), plus a 9" rim bowl at 24 oz
• Hot bowls: 6 1/4" ramen at 22 oz, 7 1/4" ramen at 32 oz, 8" noodle at 28 oz, 11" pasta at 16 oz and the 9 1/2" menudo bowl at 60 oz
• Small ware: rice, miso and bouillon at 8 oz each, a bake dish with ears, a 4 3/4" skillet bowl at 22 oz, two sauce dishes from 1 oz, a 9 oz tea cup and a 6 1/2" spoon

The skillet bowl and its compartment plate

Two of the thirty-four are sold as a match. The OC-5105 skillet bowl is 4 3/4" across and 3" deep and holds 22 oz; the OC-5112 compartment plate is a 12" x 6" rectangle listed as its partner. Together they make one pickup: hot component in the bowl, rice or a side on the flat. They carry separate stock numbers and separate case packs, so the pairing only happens if you order both, which is the easiest thing to miss here. The rest of Ocean is sized for volume bowl service, which is why the deepest piece, the 60 oz menudo bowl, holds nearly four times what the 11" pasta bowl does.

Ocean is indexed alongside every other pattern in the full Yanco range. Buyers shopping blue china weigh it against Yanco Iris Blue, another blue line built on coupe rounds, and Yanco Blue Star. For case quantities on a stock number, email sales@nishienterprise.com or call (732) 790-0199.