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While I am on my annual two-week holiday in the very remotest parts of the Greek islands of Crete and Gavdos, I will re-publish the two most popular blogs of the last year... I hope you enjoy them again! So let's talk about the elephant in the room... quite literally. I came across this wonderful tea service not long ago and was lucky enough to get it onto my shelf, and am thrilled to offer it for sale. This wonderful pattern is, indeed, called the Elephant Pattern and it was

A new column in Homes & Antiques, and this month we are visiting Ridgway in Staffordshire! Although many will know the name Ridgway, I think Job Ridgway is an unsung hero among pioneering British porcelain makers. Ridgway was a deeply religious and very talented man who grew up in poverty but quickly became a leading porcelain maker and founded a factory that would spark many other factories in the century after. Job and his sons John and William looked after their people and