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Leaf-shaped Dish

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1850-1860

GUSN

GUSN-64378

Description

Four-lobed serving dish with undefined rim dishing to an oval well. One lobe is molded leafy terminus serving as a handle. Wide magenta band with scrolled and diaper decoration. Monogrammed “HCB” in center of the well.

French export porcelain dinner service with pattern of fruit, birds, and diaper and scroll designs around “HCB” monogram. Two serving plates, five tureens, three saucers, five platters, sixteen soup plates, seventeen dinner plates, fifteen dessert plates, nineteen other plates, one pitcher, two vegetable dishes, five serving dishes, one gravy boat, eighteen nappy dishes, ten cups and ten saucers, two compotes, two chargers, five dessert bowls, and one other bowl.

Details

Descriptive Terms

dishes (vessels)
gilding
porcelain
Dish, Serving
Porcelain
Gilded
Dish, Serving

Associated Person

Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896

Associated Building

Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

10 3/8 x 8 1/8 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Carson Holt

Accession Number

1970.1213

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