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A GROUP OF FIVE BREAKFAST PLATES FROM A STATE SERVICE OF RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (PRESIDENT, 1877-1881)

DESIGNED BY LUCY WARE WEBB HAYES (1831-1889) WITH THEODORE DAVIS, HAVILAND & CO., LIMOGES, CIRCA 1880

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A GROUP OF FIVE BREAKFAST PLATES FROM A STATE SERVICE OF RUTHERFORD B. HAYES (PRESIDENT, 1877-1881)
DESIGNED BY LUCY WARE WEBB HAYES (1831-1889) WITH THEODORE DAVIS, HAVILAND & CO., LIMOGES, CIRCA 1880
9 in. diameter (5)

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For related examples from the state service of Rutherford Hayes, see Margaret Brown Klapthor, Official White House China 1789 to the Present (New York, 1999), p. 107.

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