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1815-1825
GUSN-241809
48-piece dessert service; white with mauve banding and gilt decoration. Includes an urn-shaped fruit cooler, pair of footed sauce tureens, pair of pierced baskets, and 48 dessert plates.
dessert services
porcelain
enamel (fused coating)
gilding
Service, Dessert
Norton, Catherine Eliot
Original To Shady Hill,
Possibly Sevres Porcelain Manufactory
Bequest of Susan Norton
1990.156
Cambridge (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Massachusetts (United States)
Possibly Sèvres (Hauts-de-Seine department, Île-de-France, France)
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