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Fifty-Piece Miniature Dinner Service

c. 1790

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Fifty-Piece Miniature Dinner Service

c. 1790

Physical Qualities Painted and glazed earthenware, Variable
Credit Line Gift of Gloria B. and Herbert M. Katzenberg, Baltimore
Object Number 2013.111.1-50
Probably English, this tiny dinner service replicates the covered tureens and vegetable bowls, sauce boats, plates for soup, salad, meat, bread, and even a pair of footed salt dishes typical of extensive European pottery and porcelain dinner services of the late 18th century.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2013; Gloria and Herbert Katzenberg, Baltimore

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