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.
dishes (vessels)
gilding
porcelain
Dish, Serving
Porcelain
Gilded
Dish, Serving
Bowen, Henry Chandler, 1813-1896
Original to Roseland Cottage (Woodstock, Conn.),
Unknown
10 3/8 x 8 1/8 (HxW) (inches)
Gift of Margaret Carson Holt
1970.1213
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