.: Antiques - Antique China :.

Antique china—as we define it here at the Atlanta Antique Gallery—is any tableware which is hand-decorated or transfer-decorated, hard paste porcelain.

The manufacture of antique china has its roots largely in English and American companies such as Blue Ridge China Co., Minton, Aynsley, Noritake, Tiffany, Spode, Staffordshire, and a variety of smaller companies too many to mention.

Table services of antique place settings—including dinner plates, salad plates, bread & butter plates, soup bowls, cups & saucers, tea pots, coffee pots and additional serving pieces—make up the primary pieces in antique china services.

The colorful, and somewhat primitive, designs in Blue Ridge china have lead to an extremely high collectibility factor. Children's antique china also enjoys great collectibility and for our gallery selections, please see our "Children's" category.