White House China Bits and Pieces

From our November issue of White House China E-Journal:

Did you know.....

...that the five vignettes on the border of the amaranth-colored Monroe china stand for Strength, Agriculture, Commerce, Art, and Science;

...that when she designed the Harrison china, Caroline Harrison referred to the Solferino Lincoln china for inspiration. In fact, she used the Lincoln idea of an inner border of stars to represent the number of states in the union.

...the golden rod flower, used in the border of the Harrison china, was a flower that Caroline Harrison had hoped to have made our country's national flower.

---President Chester Arthur held a "decayed furniture sale" at which 24 wagon loads of discards - including old Presidential china - were sold fetching $6000! Soon after the Arthur administration, Congress passed a law prohibiting "decayed furniture sales".

For a complete listing of Woodmere's White House Collection of presidential reproductions, click on this link:
http://www.woodmerechina.com/whitehouse.cfm