A Royal Worcester figurine is not just a beautiful hard-glazed shimmering miracle of an object.
Yes, it is to be admired and tentatively touched.
However, it must also be remembered that those decorative contours fill our home with a history so strong, so rich, so lengthy that we would be forgiven for a sharp intake of breath if we knew quite how long their tradition had been persisting.
By far the oldest recorded hard-paste porcelain maker in England, Worcester sold its first wares in 1750 under the watchful and shrewd eye of one Dr John Wall.
Dr Wall worked with talented apothecary William Davis.
The Davis and Wall team must have been some partnership because still to this day, Worcester potters talk in hushed tones about "Wall Body" - not a reference to his earthly remains but the best clay slip they ever laid their hands on.
This 'Methuselah' of a pot bank whose distinguished history has survived for so long through all the trials and tribulations an economy can throw at an enterprise has held firm time and again.
"Royal Worcester is well known to the true bone china figurine collector"
True figurine collectors know the worth of piece of Worcester. As the saying goes in some circles "Don't buy gold, buy Worcester".