Description:
Bone china teaset (matches cream jug, HD 76.248) composed of eight cups, eight saucers, one bowl, and one platter in a pattern of pink berries and gray leaves, which was part of the "Marriage Tea Set" of Maud Stebbins McClure (b.1871). Maud Stebbins McClure was the daughter of John Ashmun Stebbins (1846-1872) and Fanny Burrett (d.1875) who married in 1870. The sons of Moses Stebbins (1803-1880) and Laura Fosdick who married in 1831, John Ashmun Stebbins was the brother of William Henry Harrison Stebbins (b.1840), and William adopted his niece, Maud, after her parents' death.
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