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63. Partial Service. Chinese (American
market), ca. i860-66. Hard paste. Diam.
of large plate (.40) I37/8 in. (35.2 cm).
Gift of Elizabeth Hazard and Marion H.
McVitty, in memory of their mother,
Mrs. Lauriston H. Hazard, 1960
(6o.III33a, b; .34, .39, .40, .47, .48, .56-.58,
.135, .171, .203, .207-.209)

Daniel Paine (i808-i866), a merchant in
Providence, Rhode Island, ordered a large
service of nearly two hundredpieces, of
which this is a selection,for his wife, Louisa
Thurber Paine (1806-i880). Each piece dis-
playsfamille rose decoration the
typical of
to
periodfrom about i850 i87o, featuring
shaped reserves withflowers, birds, and
butterJfies within a ground of green orna-
mented with tightly spaced scrolls in gold.
For many years services of a scale com-
parable to this one remained in favor with
Americans; the most notable customers were
Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) and his wife,
in
who ordered3Ispieces i868, shortly before
he assumed the presidency. Typically, one or
more initials in a decorative style, enclosed
in a central, circular reserve, as here, replace
the personalizedpseudo-armorials of decades
earlier. Louisa Paine's ornate LP cipher
appears at the center each piece.
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