Tableware for setting a table, serving food and dining. It includes serving dishes and other useful items for practical as well as decorative purposes.The quality, nature, variety and number of objects varies according to culture, religion, number of diners, cuisine and occasion. Cutlery is more usually known as silverware or flatware in the United States, where cutlery usually means knives and related cutting instruments; elsewhere cutlery includes all the forks, spoons and other silverware items. Outside the US, flatware is a term for "open-shaped" dishware items such as plates, dishes and bowls (as opposed to "closed" shapes like jugs and vases). "Dinnerware" is another term used to refer to tableware and "crockery" refers to ceramic tableware,
