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Tableware Collection (#6)

"Tableware: A Feast for the Senses" Indulge in a visual feast as we explore the world of tableware, where every piece tells a story

Background imageTableware Collection: Testimonial to Dr. Lindley, from the Royal Horticultural Society, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Testimonial to Dr. Lindley, from the Royal Horticultural Society, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Testimonial to Dr. Lindley, from the Royal Horticultural Society, 1864. Solid silver epergne designed and made by Williams and Co. silversmiths, expressing thanks for Dr

Background imageTableware Collection: A respectable family having tea, 1905. Creator: Unknown

A respectable family having tea, 1905. Creator: Unknown
A respectable family having tea, 1905. This collection includes more than four hundred photographs of daily life in Yenisei Province in the late tsarist period

Background imageTableware Collection: Teatime at the Outhouse. Preobrazhenskaya Street, 1906. Creator: Unknown

Teatime at the Outhouse. Preobrazhenskaya Street, 1906. Creator: Unknown
Teatime at the Outhouse. Preobrazhenskaya Street, 1906. This collection consists of diverse materials belonging to Grigorii Nikolaevich Potanin (1835-1920)

Background imageTableware Collection: Specimens of M. Champfleury's collection of pottery, illustrative of the French Revolution, 1864

Specimens of M. Champfleury's collection of pottery, illustrative of the French Revolution, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Specimens of M. Champfleury's collection of pottery, illustrative of the French Revolution, 1864. 1. The portrait of Necker:..L'Espoir et le Soutien de la France...on a milk-pot. 2

Background imageTableware Collection: Testimonial to Colonel Gore Browne, late Governor of New Zealand, 1864. Creator: Unknown

Testimonial to Colonel Gore Browne, late Governor of New Zealand, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Testimonial to Colonel Gore Browne, late Governor of New Zealand, 1864. The testimonial, which is very handsome, consists of a centre epergne and two dessert stands

Background imageTableware Collection: Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service. Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918
Sink & mop duty, between c1915 and 1918. Students at the New York Cooking School, 126 East 59th Street. The school trained soldiers to cook for the Navy during World War I

Background imageTableware Collection: Recipes, Naval cooking school, 59th St. N.Y. between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service

Recipes, Naval cooking school, 59th St. N.Y. between c1915 and 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Recipes, Naval cooking school, 59th St. N.Y. between c1915 and 1918. Students looking at a blackboard on which are written recipes for rye bread and other foods, at the New York Cooking School

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, 1908. Creator: Francis Picabia

Still Life, 1908. Creator: Francis Picabia
Still Life, 1908. Francis Picabia's early works were in the Impressionist style. After 1912 he developed a style of abstract cubism with orphic elements contibuting to Dadaism

Background imageTableware Collection: Figure No. 417

Figure No. 417
Brig Barkow

Background imageTableware Collection: Figure No. 337

Figure No. 337
Brig Barkow

Background imageTableware Collection: The Pillar

The Pillar
Stack of porcelain plates balancing on an egg, fragility concept with copy space. Dina Belenko

Background imageTableware Collection: Company in evening lighting, 1886. Creator: Laurits Andersen Ring

Company in evening lighting, 1886. Creator: Laurits Andersen Ring
Company in evening lighting, 1886

Background imageTableware Collection: Bacchus, Ceres and Venus, 1612-1655. Creator: Cornelis Schut I

Bacchus, Ceres and Venus, 1612-1655. Creator: Cornelis Schut I
Bacchus, Ceres and Venus, 1612-1655

Background imageTableware Collection: Saying Grace, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Workshop of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin

Saying Grace, mid-late 18th century. Creator: Workshop of Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Saying Grace, mid-late 18th century

Background imageTableware Collection: The Feast of Anthony and Cleopatra, late 16th-early 17th century. Creator: Leandro Bassano

The Feast of Anthony and Cleopatra, late 16th-early 17th century. Creator: Leandro Bassano
The Feast of Anthony and Cleopatra, late 16th-early 17th century. Note black child waiting on the Egyptian queen who touches her pearl earring

Background imageTableware Collection: Vanitas Allegory, mid-17th century. Creator: Willem de Poorter

Vanitas Allegory, mid-17th century. Creator: Willem de Poorter
Vanitas Allegory, mid-17th century. A woman at her dressing table flinches at a skeleton holding up a mirror to her - a reminder of mortality

Background imageTableware Collection: Iffland's Jager, 1786. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki

Iffland's Jager, 1786. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Iffland's Jager, 1786

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life with Ham on a Pewter Dish, a Faience Set...mid-18th-early 19th century

Still Life with Ham on a Pewter Dish, a Faience Set...mid-18th-early 19th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Still Life with Ham on a Pewter Dish, a Faience Set and a Bowl of Gooseberries and Red Currants, mid-18th-early 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, mid-18th-early 19th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom

Still Life, mid-18th-early 19th century. Creator: Per Hillestrom
Still Life, mid-18th-early 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life with Fruit and Bread, c17th century. Creator: Unknown

Still Life with Fruit and Bread, c17th century. Creator: Unknown
Still Life with Fruit and Bread, c17th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Tavern Scene with Pipe-smokers. Creator: Unknown

Tavern Scene with Pipe-smokers. Creator: Unknown
Tavern Scene with Pipe-smokers, Unknown date. Manner of David Teniers the Younger

Background imageTableware Collection: Sake Vessel in the Form of Urashima Taro on the Long-tailed Turtle, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Sake Vessel in the Form of Urashima Taro on the Long-tailed Turtle, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Sake Vessel in the Form of Urashima Taro on the Long-tailed Turtle, 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Covered Bowl, c.1830. Creator: Unknown

Covered Bowl, c.1830. Creator: Unknown
Covered Bowl, c.1830

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859. Creator: John F. Francis

Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859. Creator: John F. Francis
Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859. Creator: John F. Francis

Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859. Creator: John F. Francis
Still Life, Apples and Chestnuts, 1859

Background imageTableware Collection: Frog Vessel, between 900 and 1200. Creator: Unknown

Frog Vessel, between 900 and 1200. Creator: Unknown
Frog Vessel, between 900 and 1200

Background imageTableware Collection: Old woman with child and chafing dish, 1734. Creator: Jacob de Wit

Old woman with child and chafing dish, 1734. Creator: Jacob de Wit
Old woman with child and chafing dish, 1734

Background imageTableware Collection: Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with His Bag, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with His Bag, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with His Bag, 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Sencha Teapot in the Form of a Long-Tailed Turtle; Clam Knop, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Sencha Teapot in the Form of a Long-Tailed Turtle; Clam Knop, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Sencha Teapot in the Form of a Long-Tailed Turtle; Clam Knop, 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Sake Cup Shaped like a Buddhist Gong, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Sake Cup Shaped like a Buddhist Gong, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Sake Cup Shaped like a Buddhist Gong, 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Design for the lid of a soup tureen, part of a porcelain service for Pillivuyt, c.1889

Design for the lid of a soup tureen, part of a porcelain service for Pillivuyt, c.1889

Background imageTableware Collection: Design for a dessert plate, part of a porcelain service for Piilivuyt, c.1889

Design for a dessert plate, part of a porcelain service for Piilivuyt, c.1889. Creator: Jules-Auguste Habert-Dys
Design for a dessert plate, part of a porcelain service for Piilivuyt, c.1889

Background imageTableware Collection: Design for an hors d'ouvre dish, part of a porcelain service for Pillivuyt, c.1889

Design for an hors d'ouvre dish, part of a porcelain service for Pillivuyt, c.1889

Background imageTableware Collection: Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with his Bag, 19th century. Creator: Unknown

Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with his Bag, 19th century. Creator: Unknown
Sake Vessel in the Form of Hotei with his Bag, 19th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Plate for presentation to Mr. Capreol [?] by his Fellow Citizens of Toronto, Canada West, 1858

Plate for presentation to Mr. Capreol [?] by his Fellow Citizens of Toronto, Canada West, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Plate for presentation to Mr. Capreol by his Fellow Citizens of Toronto, Canada West, 1858. Gift expressing gratitude...for the valuable services rendered by [Mr

Background imageTableware Collection: Testimonial lately presented to the Rev. E. Coleridge by Old Etonians, 1858. Creator: Unknown

Testimonial lately presented to the Rev. E. Coleridge by Old Etonians, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Testimonial lately presented to the Rev. E. Coleridge by Old Etonians, 1858. Gift for a school teacher...on the occasion of his retiring from the tutorship which he had held...for upwards of

Background imageTableware Collection: Garçon, qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier

Garçon, qu'est-ce que c'est que ça?... 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Garcon, qu'est-ce que c'est que ca?... 1841. Garcon, qu'est-ce que c'est que ca?...vous n'entendez pas vos interests; il fallait le faire couver

Background imageTableware Collection: Three shells with a Delft folding dish, 1867-1935. Creator: Maurits Willem van der Valk

Three shells with a Delft folding dish, 1867-1935. Creator: Maurits Willem van der Valk
Three shells with a Delft folding dish, 1867-1935

Background imageTableware Collection: Design for the decoration of a porcelain plate from the Alcora factory, c.1790

Design for the decoration of a porcelain plate from the Alcora factory, c.1790. Creator: Vicente Alvaro
Design for the decoration of a porcelain plate from the Alcora factory, c.1790

Background imageTableware Collection: Breakfast-Time, 1887. Creator: Hanna Pauli

Breakfast-Time, 1887. Creator: Hanna Pauli
Breakfast-Time, 1887

Background imageTableware Collection: Breakfast Time, 1887. Creator: Hanna Pauli

Breakfast Time, 1887. Creator: Hanna Pauli
Breakfast Time, 1887

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, 1666-1700. Creator: Georg Hainz

Still Life, 1666-1700. Creator: Georg Hainz
Still Life, 1666-1700

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life with Nautilus Cup, 1648-1688. Creator: Frans Sant-Acker

Still Life with Nautilus Cup, 1648-1688. Creator: Frans Sant-Acker
Still Life with Nautilus Cup, 1648-1688

Background imageTableware Collection: Feast of the Gods in a Cave near the Sea Shore. Creator: Gerard Seghers

Feast of the Gods in a Cave near the Sea Shore. Creator: Gerard Seghers
Feast of the Gods in a Cave near the Sea Shore, unknown date

Background imageTableware Collection: Seated man lights his pipe from a chafing dish, 1795-1857. Creator: Wouter Mol

Seated man lights his pipe from a chafing dish, 1795-1857. Creator: Wouter Mol
Seated man lights his pipe from a chafing dish, 1795-1857

Background imageTableware Collection: Still Life, 1849. Creator: Robert Seldon Duncanson

Still Life, 1849. Creator: Robert Seldon Duncanson
Still Life, 1849

Background imageTableware Collection: Breakfast Piece with Ham, late 17th-mid-18th century. Creator: Alexandre François Desportes

Breakfast Piece with Ham, late 17th-mid-18th century. Creator: Alexandre François Desportes
Breakfast Piece with Ham, late 17th-mid-18th century

Background imageTableware Collection: Breakfast Piece with Oysters, 1729. Creator: Alexandre François Desportes

Breakfast Piece with Oysters, 1729. Creator: Alexandre François Desportes
Breakfast Piece with Oysters, 1729




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"Tableware: A Feast for the Senses" Indulge in a visual feast as we explore the world of tableware, where every piece tells a story. From the elegant toast rack that cradles warm slices of golden bread to the delicate egg dish awaiting its perfectly cooked companion, each item adds charm to any dining experience. Step into an era gone by with "The Bottle" by George Cruikshank, capturing a lively scene filled with laughter and clinking glasses. Transport yourself further back in time at Southport Chapel Street station, where you can almost hear the chugging trains and feel the hustle and bustle of Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Dinner is served. Picture yourself seated at a beautifully set table adorned with gleaming silver cutlery and exquisite china plates. The sardine box whispers tales from distant shores while caviar tantalizes your taste buds with its luxurious allure. Embark on a romantic spaghetti date, twirling noodles around forks amidst candlelight and soft music playing in the background. Still Life With Wine invites you to raise your glass in celebration of life's simple pleasures. Discover Peach Cutlery, adding a touch of whimsy to any mealtime affair. The still lifes numbered 94, 96, and 98 invite us into intimate moments frozen in time - vibrant fruits juxtaposed against muted backgrounds create captivating compositions. Intrigue meets simplicity in Black and White Still Life; shadows dance across monochrome objects creating an air of mystery. Travel across continents to Japan's Earthenware Shop - immerse yourself in traditional craftsmanship as delicate ceramics await their new homes. Tableware is more than just functional items; it is art that enhances our daily rituals. So next time you sit down for a meal or gather loved ones around your table, take notice of these small treasures that elevate our dining experiences into something truly extraordinary.