This selection of the 200th anniversary china was made by Lenox China of Trenton, New Jersey. President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton selected a state service with this design to celebrate the White House's 200th anniversary in 2000. Features in the photo from left to right across the back are a dessert plate, dinner plate, service late, fish plate and a salad plate. In front left to right are a cream soup cup and saucer, a teacup and its accompanying saucer.

This glassware was part of a set ordered by President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961 from the Morgantown Glassware Guild of Morgantown, West Virginia. The purchase of the elegant, simple set ended a long tradition of engraved glassware at the White House. The glassware became widely popular as many Americans purchased the same set for their households.

This glassware was part of the service made for the White House by C. Dorflinger & Sons of White Mill, Pennsylvania in 1891, when President Benjamin Harrison held office. President Harrison ordered the service to replace the Lincoln glassware, selecting an ornate, newly fashionable design known as the Russian pattern. The pieces shown here include a goblet, a water bottle, an Apollinaris tumbler, an ice cream plate, a finger bowl, and a brandy-and-soda tumbler.

This teacup and saucer is from the informal residence service designed by Anna Weatherly for the George W. Bush administration. The china features a magnolia branch and whimsical insects, including a lady bug on the interior of the teacup.

This cup and saucer is a part of the George W. Bush state china service. In designing the service, the Bushes looked to china used by former presidential families for inspiration. The gilded edge band on the saucer includes neoclassical reeding and incuse acanthus leaves.

This selection of the Barack Obama state service that was created in 2015 by Pickard China of Antioch, Illinois. The design demonstrates the shift from primary colors used more recently to the new selection of a fluted Kailua Blue, a unique color chosen by First Lady Michelle Obama to represent the blue waters of Hawaii, President Barack Obama's home state. In accordance with tradition, the plate bears the Presidential Coat of Arms. Included in the photo are a service plate, a dinner plate, a dessert plate and a cup and saucer.

These French porcelain service pieces, shown here on display in a bookcase in the White House Family Dining Room, were made by Tressemannes and Vogt of Limoges, France, in 1892. They are part of a state china service that President Benjamin Harrison first ordered for the White House. The service featured a dark blue border, corn and goldenrod decorations, 44 gold stars representing the number of states in the Union when Harrison purchased the china and a design similar to the one found on the Lincoln china, with an eagle standing atop a shield, combining similar elements as the iconography from the Great Seal and the Seal of the President.

This glassware set, featuring two celery vases and a wine glass cooler shown with a wine glass in it, was created by the Bakewell, Page & Bakewell Company of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Each piece is etched with grapes and grapevines, as well as a design inspired by the Great Seal, with an eagle standing atop a shield holding arrows and an olive branch, although the shield in this design contains stars in the chief which are not present in either the Great Seal or the presidential arms. The set is purportedly part of a service that President Andrew Jackson ordered in 1829 that remained in use until President Franklin Pierce bought a new service in 1853, though scholarship contends the service may have been made as recently as the early 1850s.

This colored glassware, including a decanter, a glass, and a finger bowl, was likely made in England between 1820 and 1840. The glass and finger bowl were owned by President James Polk and First Lady Sarah Childress Polk. The decanter was given to the White House as a gift in 1907 by a woman whose mother purchased it at a White House sale in the 19th century.

This porcelain cup was made by the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufactory of Meissen, Germany, circa 1800, soon after George Washington's death. The manufacturer based the likeness on this cup after a portrait of Washington painted by American artist Charles Willson Peale.

This selection of gilded silver objects were made in the 18th and 19th centuries by some of the finest French and English silversmiths of the time. The pieces were part of a donation of over 1,500 silver gilt, or vermeil, objects made to the White House in 1956 by Margaret Thompson Biddle, a close friend of First Lady Mamie Eisenhower. Special cabinets to house the collection were built in a ground floor room of the White House, now known as the Vermeil or Gold Room.

This glassware set was created by Bakewell, Page & Bakewell of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The set, which features two decanters, a water bottle, and a wine glass, may have formed part of a service that President Andrew Jackson ordered for the White House as early as 1829. Each piece is etched with grapes and grapevines, as well as a design inspired by the Great Seal, with an eagle standing atop a shield holding arrows and an olive branch, although the shield in this design contains stars in the chief which are not present in either the Great Seal or the presidential arms. The patterned service purportedly remained in use until President Franklin Pierce bought a new service in 1853, though scholarship contends the service may have been made as recently as the early 1850s.

These porcelain breakfast pieces, including a plate, a teacup, and a saucer, were made by Theodore Haviland of Limoges, France, in 1895. It was part of a set that First Lady Frances Cleveland ordered for the White House during Grover Cleveland's second term in the White House. The pattern features scattered pink roses and green leaves.

This glassware set, featuring a decanter and three glasses, was created in the United States between 1830 and 1850. President Zachary Taylor and First Lady Margaret Smith Taylor used the glassware during their time at the White House from 1849 to 1850, and one of their grandsons, Captain John Taylor Wood, donated the set to the White House in 1915.

These service pieces were part of the glassware and porcelain services that First Lady Caroline Harrison purchased for the White House in 1891. The breakfast and dinner plate both feature a corn and goldenrod border, chosen to represent Mrs. Harrison's native state of Indiana, and were made by Tressemannes and Vogt of Limoges, France. The glassware, including this water goblet, was ordered from C. Dorflinger and Sons of White Mills, Pennsylvania, and featured the popular Russian pattern of the time.

This glassware set was created by C. Dorflinger & Sons of White Mill, Pennsylvania, and delivered to the White House in 1891, during Benjamin Harrison's administration. The set, which includes a Claret glass, a sherry glass, a decanter, a wine glass, and a champagne glass, features the so-called Russian pattern, a popular glassware design in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

These porcelain serving pieces were made for the White House by Haviland and Co. of New York City and Limoges, France, in 1879. President Rutherford B. Hayes purchased them as part of a state dinner service that featured elaborate designs conceived by American artist Theodore Russell Davis. First Lady Lucy Hayes had planned to select a floral pattern for the White House service when she had a chance meeting with Davis. Davis suggested that instead she opt for depictions of flora and fauna native to North America, and Mrs. Hayes agreed. She commissioned Davis as the designer, and he produced 130 distinct decorations for the 562 piece service.

These porcelain serving pieces, including a caviar dish, an after-dinner coffee cup, and a soup plate, were made for the 1939 New York World's Fair and then transmitted to the White House during the administration of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The caviar dish and soup plate were manufactured at the Shenango Pottery Company of New Castle, Pennsylvania, for the New York firm of Theodore Haviland. Lenox China of Trenton, New Jersey, made the cup. The china, featuring a version of the Great Seal of the United States, appeared at the Fair's United States Federal Building, which housed exhibits about the federal government's services to the public.

These ruby-stained and engraved wine glasses were likely purchased for the White House in 1873, during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency.

These porcelain pieces, including tea cup, a saucer, and an oyster plate, were part of a state dinner service made by the English firm Wedgwood in 1903. President Theodore Roosevelt purchased the service, which features a delicate gilt pattern known as "Ulunda" and the Great Seal of the United States, soon after completing a major White House renovation.

This engraved glassware was made for the New York World's Fair in 1939 by the Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co. of Toledo, Ohio. The set, which includes a cocktail, dessert wine, dinner wine, cordial, and champagne glasses, were featured at the Fair's United States Federal Building, which housed exhibits about the federal government's services to the public. The glasses were transferred to the White House in 1941, during Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration.

This engraved glassware set was made by T. G. Hawkes & Company of Corning, New York in 1937. The set, which features a Sherry glass, a wine glass, a goblet, a champagne glass, a cordial glass, and a finger bowl was among the first glassware that President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt ordered in 1937. A copper-wheel engraved eagle insignia adorns the glasses.

This engraved insignia appeared on a goblet that was part of a service made for the White House by C. Dorflinger & Sons in 1891, during Benjamin Harrison's administration. Harrison selected a complex, richly cut design known as the Russian pattern. The insignia, derived from the Great Seal of the United States, features an eagle with a shield on its chest, holding in its beak a banner that reads E Pluribus Unum, or "out of many, one."

This set of wine glasses was likely ordered for the White House in 1873, during Ulysses S. Grant's presidency. The glasses are etched with a grape and grapevine pattern that closely resembles the design selected by Andrew Jackson when he purchased a new glassware service for the White House in 1829.

These serving pieces, including a water goblet, a finger bowl, and a salad plate, were part of the glassware and china services ordered for the White House between 1934 and 1938, during the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. The glassware was made by T. G. Hawkes & Company of Corning, New York. The state china service, which features an inner band of gilt plumes and roses adapted from the Roosevelt family coat of arms, was produced by Lenox China of Trenton, New Jersey.