When the fragrance is a memory, the vessel is a treasure.
Fourteen votives fill out the assortment.
The vessel styles are our favorite well-known porcelain patterns. We use high quality wax and 100% palm free vegetable oil with a smoke free burn. Each porcelain pattern is matched with a scent.The best votive is one that becomes a liquid pool that wafts fragrance gently over time. We formulated these scents with the famed Vila Hermanos candle producers of ...Read more of post
Enjoy one of our best loved designs with our porcelain tray that exactly fits our guest soap. ( We call it a guest soap for its small yet it is ample enough). This sensual and brilliant soap is a pure delight, combining the intensity of blooming rose, jasmine and tart cassis with Damascus plum and white peach. A base of golden sandalwood and liquid amber completes this unique formulation.
We traveled to Vermont to a fine soap manufacturer and ...Read more of post
Holidays and family meals are better with gravy, say we. It can be a cocunut milk and curry sauce, or something to go with the poultry or beef to name a few types. Our grandmother used to kid us and say "Please pass the grease." This is not your grandmothers's dinnerware, however, because Indigo Wave was created by Mottahedeh in 2003 by using an antique rim soup bowl collected by Mrs. Mottahedeh as inspiration and then the various elements of ...Read more of post
At Mottahedeh we generally opt for lots of bold color with a style that is not shy. On the opposite end of the spectrum, white creamware made of faience, or soft paste porcelain, is our other love. Creamware has been in the offering for more than forty years. Many times, the original has been French, and yet we make ours in Italy as the craftsmanship is exceptional and historic. Faience can be made into shapely forms with lots of detail.
Here is our ...Read more of post
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
In this time of the year when National holidays are around the corner, it is good to think about all these tiny things that make the American history remarkable. One of them is tobacco, which is still the best-selling product in the world (in form of cigarettes). What is so impressive about it, but also about the plant that brings all the beauty to one of the most popular porcelain patterns?
Have you ever wondered why snowflakes look so gorgeous? Their shape has always been mysterious, but also impressive to all as we catch them in the air in winter. Well, it seems snowflakes are more than just a meteorological change that happens in the atmosphere. There are many stories about snowflakes and the beauty of their structure. Two National Geographic’s articles from the beginning of the twentieth century, featuring the real snowflakes’ structure and beauty ...Read more of post
Here is a sneak preview of Anna Weatherley's new lamp collection!
"Special Edition of Hand Painted Porcelain Lamps
This is the first collection of the Anna Weatherley's series of lamps created in her studio in Budapest, Hungary. The painting of the designs are very detailed, every brushstroke is highly visible on the white porcelain background."
The Blue Shòu pasta plates on the Blue Shòu presentation plates look beautiful set on this table with the Tisch New York placemats, Atlantis crystal, Alain Saint-Joanis flatware and Kim Seybert napkins. Did I forget to mention the fabulous Blue Canton porcelain boxes that are the perfect little gift to your dinner guests.
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