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MAISON CHENAL & LACOUR HOUSE PROPERTIES & COLLECTION A Louisiana French Creole Tout Ensemble
An early Mochaware Pitcher. Peafowl spongeware
A shard of a waste bowl depicting General Lafayette at the tomb of Franklin.
It had been discarded by bottle collectors digging in the Treme area of New Orleans.
Hill and Henderson, New Orleans, Transferware Plate (1822 – 1834). This pattern (Tuscan Rose) is one of an almost limitless number done in transferware but a treasured example in the collection because of the retailer’s mark.
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A Rouen plate dug in New Orleans and formally in the Groves Collection.
C.C. Robin wrote of the cheap Rouen ware that could not
compete with English china.
It was “too little, too late.”