This floor vase, almost 26 inches high, was made around 1900 by Weller and Company. Signed by artist Frank Ferrell, it sold for $10,925 in a recent Treadway/Toomey Galleries sale.

Made of bone china, this pattern is also dishwasher safe. Blue Frost by Lenox ($100 for a five-piece place setting) takes traditional ivory fine china and adds a beautiful smoky blue border ...