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How Is Chinese Porcelain Classified? A Complete Guide

If you've ever looked at a piece of Chinese porcelain and seen it described as "blue and white," "famille rose," "monochrome glaze" or "from one of the Five Great Kilns,"...

How to Style Chinese Porcelain Vases in a Modern Home

If you have bought a Chinese porcelain vase because you loved it in the shop, then brought it home and had no idea where to actually put it, you are...

Are Porcelain Pet Bowls Safe for Cats and Dogs?

If you have ever stood in front of a shelf of pretty ceramic pet bowls and wondered whether they are actually safe for your cat or dog to eat from...

How to Tell If Porcelain Is Real Before You Buy

You've found a "porcelain" tea set or dinnerware set online that looks right — good pattern, fair price, decent photos — and you're one click from buying it without ever...

Jingdezhen Porcelain: Why China's Porcelain Capital Is Now a UNESCO World Heritage Site

UNESCO added Jingdezhen to the World Heritage List in July 2026, China's first industrial heritage listing and the first porcelain site on the list anywhere. Here's what a thousand years...

Caring for Wood & Shell-Inlay Chopsticks

Not every pair of chopsticks in our collection is porcelain — and that's by design. Natural wood and shell inlay bring something glaze can't: warmth in the hand, grain that's...

Why Porcelain Is the Safer Choice for Everyday Chopsticks

Most people choose chopsticks by look and feel, not by what the material actually does at the table. But the material matters more than it gets credit for — chopsticks...

How to Care for Hand-Painted Chinese Porcelain | CI Porcelain

Every CI Porcelain piece begins in Jingdezhen, the Chinese city that has fired porcelain for over 1,700 years and earned the nickname "China's Porcelain Capital." After the clay is shaped...