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ITALIAN TABLEWARE, KNOWN AS BUON RICORDO PLATES The hand-painted ceramics were introduced 60 years ago at restaurants in Italy. Buon Ricordo plates, as a marketing tool for an association of regional Italian restaurants, feature designs inspired partly by restaurants’ signature dishes. At La Bettola Del Gusto, a restaurant in Pompeii, the meal came on a ceramic plate with a whimsical hand-painted design depicting the spaghettoni dish and a smoking Vesuvius. Lots of Italy, on Many Collectible Plates | The New York Times