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Culture:English
Title:teaset
Date Made:1850-1870
Type:Food Service
Materials:ceramic: porcelain (bone china), polychrome enamels
Place Made:United Kingdom; England; Staffordshire
Accession Number:  HD 70.118
Credit Line:Gift of Mrs. L.C. VanWoert
Museum Collection:  Historic Deerfield

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.

Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; polychrome; Porcelain

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