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2. Famous Women Dinner Service - Wikipedia

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   The Famous Women Dinner Service is a set of 50 dinnerplates, each hand-decorated by Bloomsbury Group artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Commissioned as a dinner service without a brief by art historian and museum director Kenneth Clark in 1932, the set was made between 1932 and 1934. It represents 48 notable women, with another two plates ...

3. White House china - Wikipedia

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   A dinner service of thirty place-settings and a matching dessert service was purchased for US$1,167.23. A Napoleonic eagle was in the center of the plates, which was popular at the time in both France and America. The eagle carried a red, white, and blue banner reading "E Pluribus Unum", the national motto. Five vignettes inside the dark red ...

4. Mess kit - Wikipedia

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   Mess kit. A mess kit is a collection of silverware and cookware designed for use by military personnel for food and military rations. They may also be used during camping and backpacking. There are many varieties of mess kits that militaries issue to their personnel that later become available to consumers.

5. Fiesta (dinnerware) - Wikipedia

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   New Fiesta in a store. Contemporary Fiesta - 5 pieces for $45 in 2012. Fiesta is a line of ceramic glazed dinnerware manufactured and marketed by the Fiesta Tableware Company of Newell, West Virginia [1][2] since its introduction in 1936, [1] with a hiatus from 1973 to 1985. Fiesta is noted for its Art Deco styling and its range of often bold ...

6. Plate (dishware) - Wikipedia

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   Plate (dishware) Typical Chinese plate or dish shape, with narrow lip. Jingdezhen ware, Yuan dynasty, 1271–1368. Silver-gilt plate, 1605, from the dinner service of Constance of Austria. Probably used as a charger to place other tableware on. A plate is a broad, mainly flat vessel on which food can be served. [1]

7. Charger (table setting) - Wikipedia

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   The word "charger" originated around 1275–1325 from the Middle English "chargeour", coming itself from the latin word carricare, meaning “to load". [2] Formerly, a charger signified either a large platter or a large, shallow dish for liquids. [3] They are usually larger than most common dinner plates. Since they are not used for food ...