A Dodie Thayer Lettuce Ware Dinner Service

comprising:
14 dinner plates
14 salad plates
13 bread plates
14 soup bowls
10 fruit bowls
7 coffee cups
8 teacups
8 saucers
4 salt or pepper shakers
2 candlesticks
1 two-handled sugar bowl
1 creamer
1 oblong serving plate
1 spoon rest
1 covered tureen with under plate
1 large serving bowl
1 salt cellar with spoon
1 large round platter;
104 items total
Diameter of serving platter 19 inches.

Property from the Estate of John D. Fornengo, Chicago, Illinois

Provenance:

Devonshire, Palm Beach

Note:

This set was custom-made by Dodie Thayer for DeeDee Fornengo.

In overall good, attractive condition with scattered chips and small areas of loss to glaze throughout—including one dinner plate with a one-inch chip to the rim; a small shallow rim chip to one salt or pepper shaker, one coffee cup, a fruit bowl, a candlestick and the tureen cover; a partially repaired chip to the edge of one bread plate; a chip to the rim of the large serving bowl; two chips, one partially repaired, to the lettuce-form rim of the tureen; and one salad plate with two chips to the rim. Spoon rest with significant visible repair and two areas of remaining loss. Small amount of amber-colored deposit on one salad plate. Additional images available upon request.

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