Fine China

Fine china is porcelain refined to its limit, fired hot until the body is thin, hard and pale, the standard the great tableware houses of Japan and France built their names on. It suits the settings meant to be noticed, a soup course served on a winged plate or breakfast poured into cups banded with real platinum. Choose it for how food reads against a fine white ground, with the decoration held at the rim so the pattern stays in view even when the plate is full.