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Dessert Service

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Collection Type

  • Cooking equipment

Date

1815-1825

GUSN

GUSN-241806

Description

A 48-piece dessert service. Includes an urn-shaped fruit cooler, pair of pierced baskets, two footed sauce tureens, and 43 plates. White body with gilt and mauve banding and gilt decoration.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dessert services
porcelain
enamel (fused coating)
Service, Dessert

Associated Person

Norton, Catherine Eliot

Associated Building

Used At Shady Hill,

Maker

Possibly Sevres Porcelain Manufactory

Credit Line

Bequest of Susan Norton

Accession Number

.1-43

Places

Possibly Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France, France)

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