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DescriptionEV Haughwout demonstration plates for President Franklin Pierce - 1853.jpg
English: Woodcut engraving showing two porcelain plates created as samples for the administration of President Franklin Pierce. These plates, crafted from blank porcelain manufactured in France by Haviland, were created by E. V. Haughwout & Co. in 1853 in the hope that President Pierce would purchase china from the company. Although Pierce did not do so, Mary Todd Lincoln was the "demonstration plates" in 1861 and chose a revised version of the right-hand plate for the Lincoln White House's "Solferino" china service.
Benjamin Silliman and Charles Rush Goodrich, The World of Science, Art, and Industry, Illustrated From Examples in the New-York Exhibition, 1853-54. New York: G.P. Putnam and Company, 1854, p. 129.
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