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.

Another famous Lenox pattern, Autumn, was used last November in a Thanksgiving scene on ABC’s Commander in Chief. Lenox china also has appeared on NBC’s The West Wing.

Brenda Bizzelle likes to check out the dinnerware counters at nice stores when she goes out of town, just to admire the fruits of her labor. She can run her fingers over the bumps of bright enamel ...