Embassy Tableware served as symbol of British pride

In 1962, Lord John Hope, the Minister of Works in the Macmillan government commissioned David Mellor (1930-2009) to ‘supply silver you have designed to every British embassy in the world’.

What became known as ‘Embassy Tableware’ was unveiled the following year with the Council of Indus…

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