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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
So instead of getting out your sad, chipped mixing bowls as your backup serving pieces, grab a three-piece set of these Trudeau porcelain serving bowls.
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Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
20 Oct. 2025
Also in September, robbers stole $11 million worth of porcelain works, described as national treasures, from the Adrien Dubouché National Museum in the French town of Limoges.
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