Royal Doulton China has been a maker of china and tableware for over 200 years.In 1815, the companies’ founder began producing stoneware in a small potters company in South London. John Doulton, who founded the company, began in Lambeth, and his son Henry build the business up, and relocated it about 60 years later to [...]

Are you tired of throwing away a glass piece simply because the handle has broken off, or the chip in the rim is made it look poor? You don’t have to throw them out. The worth will of course be somewhat lessened, and you may not use the piece as tableware, but they can be [...]

Just take a walk through the nearest fine gift or antique shop. You’ll quickly see that there is a huge variety of figurines from which to choose. When starting a collection, quality is important but so is having a good grasp of what type of figurine on which to focus. Do you want sports pieces? [...]

China tea cups may be plain or very ornately decorated like this one.Another highly addicting collection to begin, china tea cups have a beauty and diversity to suit the most demanding of eyes. The finest cup is bone china that seems translucent. This quality comes from bone ask in the cup’s clay. When you hold [...]

Bone china has been around for a very long time and can be discovered in rummage and jumble sales, garage sales, or your grandmother’s old hutch or buffet. It’s highly collectible and its lovely to look at and pleasing to use for coffee or tea. There are several unique processes involved in the making of [...]

Royal Albert China is renowned for quality, English style china with unique and artistic patterns.

Since its introduction in 1962, their “Old Country Roses” china pattern has sold over 150 million pieces [...]

The history of Spode China is steeped in history and tradition as the company continues to produce some of the most popular china tableware patterns even today [...]

Most of the major manufacturers of fine China manufacture not only tableware, but also collectibles, miniatures such as tea sets and cup and saucer collectibles or other figurines [...]

Bone china from companies like Royal Doulton can be a great investment for your home tableware collection.Bone china is a sort of porcelain that was first made in Great Britain when calcined oxen bone was mixed with the other ingredients and fired once at a higher temperature to give it the translucence and then at [...]

China and pottery manufacturers have used pottery or china marks as a means to provide for identification of their products nearly since the inception of the glassmakers craft. A china, or pottery mark, is very much like a fingerprint is to a human. A means of identifying and letting the purchaser or owner know when [...]