Farewell Gifts for Colleagues

Choosing a farewell gift for a colleague is harder than it looks. It has to feel considered without being personal enough to misjudge them, and it should outlast the leaving lunch.

Fine bone china has long been the gracious answer. It reads as expensive because the material is, it carries no name or slogan that could land wrong, and it ends up in daily use on someone's new desk — which is the quiet point of a leaving present. Every piece here works equally well for a man or a woman, a peer or a manager.