Forget an aesthetically pleasing serving platter or a bijou side plate, we all know that the hardest working piece of dinnerware in our kitchen cupboard is the dinner bowl.

Call it what you like – a pasta bowl, low bowl or ‘blate’ – the hybrid bowl-plate is the ideal vehicle for all of your favourite autumnal meals: a slow-cooked ragu, warming vegetable curry or hearty stew.

So if you’ve been looking to upgrade your crockery, now is the time, with delightful designs and genuinely joyful colourways on offer from Our Place, Far and Away, Anthropologie and more. Here are nine of the most stylish to shop now. 

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