Figure 3. — Plate, compote, and small platter from the purple-bordered State china used 

 during the administration of President Abraham Lincoln, (usnm ace. Q21233; Smithsonian 

 photo 481 15-A.J 



Two Bowls for .Salad 

 Four Shells do Pickles 

 Four Meat Platters 9 inch 



Four Fish do various sizes, and forms 

 Two Butter Dishes, with drainers, and covers. 

 Six uncovered vegetable dishes or bakers. 

 Ninety-six Dinner Plates 9 inch 

 Forty-eight Soup do 9 do 

 Four Large Water Pitchers. 

 Two Bowls for Ice. 



Eleven Hundred, and ninety-five dollars. 



One fine Porcelain Dessert Service, consisting of Two 



hundred and eight pieces .... 208 ... richly 



decorated to match Dining Set .... namely. 



Two Stands for Custard CIups 



Thirty-six ... do do 



Eight High Comportiers for fruit. 



Two do do large do do 



Four shell do 



Two Bowls for .Strawberries 



Two Dessert .Sugars 



Six Round High Baskets for fruit. 



Two Oval do do do do 



Sixty Dessert Plates 8 inch 



Thirty-six after Dinner Coffees. 



Eight Himdred. and thirty-seven dollars. 



PAPER 62: WHITE HOUSE CHINA OF THE LINCOLN ADM 



One fine Breakfast, and Tea Service, containing Two 



Hundred, and sixty pieces, richly decorated lo match 



Dinner Service ... namely. 



Forty-eight I ea Plates G'j inch 



Thirty-six Preserve do 4% do 



Thirty-six Coffees for Breakfast 



Twenty-four Egg Cups 



Thirty-si.\ Teas 



Eight Plates for Cake 



Seven Hundred, and fifty nine dollars. 



Four Small Sevres Centre Pieces for Bon Bons, decorated 

 to match Dinner Service @ Twenty-five = One Hundred 

 Two Large Centre Pieces, Sevres, supported by "White 

 Pelicans and decorated to match dinner service 



@ One Hundred = Two Hundred 

 Two Pimch Bowls, decorated to match dinner service 



@ Fifty ^ One Hundred 

 Packages Four Dollars 



Total .Amount 

 Three Fhousand. one Hundred and .\'inety-five dollars. 



The picture of the design presented for President 

 Pierce's inspection in 1853 which appears in the 

 catalog of the .New York CrNstal Palace Exhibition * 

 is proof of the readiness with which symbolism is 

 read into a design which came into existence long 



< Loc. cit. (footnote 2). 

 INI.STRATION 



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