We're feeling a little blue today, well actually blue and white! Our Emmeline pattern always cheers us up, the design was inspired from Chinese export designs for 18th century Europe. We made it with high fired hard porcelain and cobalt glaze. It is is dishwasher and microwave safe.

Fresh from the garden, Tulips and Hyacinth to brighten up this table featuring our new Sacred Bird and Butterfly dinner service from the Historic Charleston Foundation collection. This is an adaptation is from a Chinese export pattern of about 1800 and was intended for those who admired the sophistication of placing traditional Chinese motifs of birds, butterflies and flowers on European shapes.

What is a Teacup Tuesday without a side? A beautiful apple strudel is served on a Tobacco Leaf dessert tray. We love this shape for baked goods but it can be used for so much more; sandwiches, appetizers, chocolate covered pretzel logs, asparagus, a jam and jelly tray or even in the bath to hold your secret serums!

To all our friends celebrating Hanukkah, May this festival bring blessings upon you and your family! We are celebrating on Imperial Blue from the Colonial Williamsburg Collection. Happy Hanukkah from all of us at Mottahedeh.

It only takes a couple of daisies to brighten up a Thursday lunch. Mottahedeh's modern interpretation of blue and white Chinoiserie is Blue Shou and is dishwasher and microwave safe.

A lemon meringue tart sits pretty on our Chelsea Feather Gold plates. Tradition with a modern twist, Mottahedeh deconstructed a formal Rococo dinner service dating back to 1770, keeping the scalloped shape and 22K gold feathered edge and removed the design to create a clean fresh look.

I found this in an old entertaining book. Does anyone set a formal table anymore? 12 pieces of cutlery and 5 drinking glasses, The world has certainly changed and gotten more casual. By these standards, our formal tables would be considered at most semi-formal.

Time to get the fine china / Limoges porcelain or any fancy plates out and enjoy ALL your meals in them.  This morning breakfast with Tuileries 
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Did you know that Chinese New Year is next Saturday? We also noticed that many of you, while searching for our products, want to know more about how porcelain is made.
The story about fine China porcelain will, therefore, make a perfect match. Enjoy it.

Porcelain and other types of ceramics are such an integral part of our everyday life that it is not something we notice. This was not always the case. Porcelain was once the rarest of materials in the 16th, 17th and 18th ...Read more of post