Possible Clues:

• Skeleton service for use at dinner or tea?
• Company setting?
• Elegant table setting
• Type of fine porcelain
• High quality porcelain
• What may make service book - one feature article
• Mate getting near the knuckle, say, in Coalport
• Bachelor admits one feature which is fragile
• Single feature within degree material for ceramics
• Friend chasing book on English porcelain