Tea Set

This tea set is made of Belleek, a lustrous, eggshell-thin type of porcelain, originally manufactured in Ireland beginning in 1857. Trying to capitalize upon the success of their Irish counterparts, […]

Tea Set

In the 1876, in an effort to reduce the power of the feudal lords known as samurai, the Japanese Meiji government banned the wearing of swords. This move, coupled with […]

“Liberty China” Tea Set

In 1917, when the United States entered the First World War, the New York socialite Mrs. Robert Coleman Taylor commissioned the potter Josiah Wedgwood & Sons of Etruria, England, to produce […]