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The Birmingham Assay Office was pleased to support jewellery designer Fei Liu, along with eight selected British jewellery designers, to showcase at the Shin Kong Place department store in Beijing in November last year. As well as demonstrating the brilliance of UK jewellery design to consumers and trade buyers, Fei Liu wanted to showcase the UK's long heritage of jewellery manufacturing and The Birmingham Assay Office. The Assay Office lent a silverware piece, the Warwick Vase, from it's…

William Morris was born into an affluent family in Walthamstow in 1834. He studied at Oxford, which is where he met Burne-Jones. The pair became friends with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ford Madox Brown and other members of the Pre-Raphaelite circle. They were also influenced by the writings of John Ruskin, who called for a return to handcraftsmanship in industry rather than unrestrained, mechanised mass production. Morris, Burne-Jones and Rossetti were some of the founder members of Morris a…