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Recent Examples of ironstone chinaAlong with vintage and bone china pieces, look for ironstone china at the thrift store.—Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 5 Feb. 2025 The founder of curiosity shop Kabinett & Kammer, in Franklin, N.Y., cites a surging interest in chipped and crazed ironstone china as an example.—Kathryn O'Shea-Evans, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2021
While the sentimental value of her china is priceless and can never be matched, there are still plenty of legacy brands to shop gorgeous china sets from that maintain the premium quality of her original pieces in new patterns and upgraded designs.
Gehry pursued architecture after a ceramics teacher saw his talent for three-dimensional art.
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Bethy Squires,
Vulture,
5 Dec. 2025
Two years later, she was employed in a ceramics factory in Germany, and then moved to Denmark, in 1963, to work in the stoneware department of the Royal Porcelain Factory, now known as Royal Copenhagen—among the most prestigious places in the world to hone the craft.