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Introduction
Every home should have one
- Home entertainment
- Dressing
- Dinner
- Dessert
  - Centrepiece for holding fruit
  - Wineglass rinser
  - Porcelain tureen and (non-matching) stand
  - Stand with sweetmeat glasses
  - Wooden roundels
- Drinking beer
- Drinking wine and spirits
- Drinking tea and coffee
How did they do that?
Putting on the style

Porcelain tureen and (non-matching) stand

A photograph of an interestingly shaped bowl with odd ridges, sitting on a saucer.

Chelsea, 1752-56

Dishes in crazy shapes were popular for dessert. What you found inside would certainly not be cauliflower!

Given by Joseph Mayer, 1867.

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