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Tableware set

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1907-1919

GUSN

GUSN-179683

Description

Set of six porcelain bouillon cups, six saucers, a tea caddy with lid and one lone lid. Decoration around each piece is a swag of greenery held up by blue ribbons. Above each curve of the swag is a pink rosebud. Also decorated with gilt designs.

Details

Descriptive Terms

tableware
porcelain
Limoges
Set, Tableware

Inscription

"LIMOGES / T.V." (Mark of a red bell)
"T & V / LIMOGES / FRANCE" (Green glaze mark, T & V is within a rectangle with rest of text below)

Associated Building

Original to Phillips House (Salem, Mass.),

Maker

Tressemanes & Vogt (Manufacturer)

Credit Line

Gift of the Stephen Phillips Memorial Charitable Trust for Historic Preservation

Accession Number

2006.44.3043

Places

Limoges (Haute-Vienne, Limousin, France)

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