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Article: Antiques & Collecting: Sheer class on a plate at the dining table; Richard Edmonds looks at the history of the Tiffany flatware table service, made at a time in America when dining was an art.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- June 10, 2000
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Summer is the time when you bring out the best porcelain and silver for those special candle-lit dinners which end, at this time of year, with strawberries and cream and a pudding wine.
It all has something to do with warm weather and relaxation, table flowers and good company, the kind of guests who appreciate a well designed cutlery service, or a fine wine glass.
But food has always had its special rituals, and you only have to look at the tea ceremony in the 18th century, with its beautiful porcelain tea pots, tea bowls and hand made silver teaspoons, to ...