Fruit dish from George and Martha Washington's formal dinner service
name: label: Associated Name
content: Washington, George
notes: label: Description
content: This fruit dish is from the Sèvres banquet service that he and Martha Washington used for formal entertaining in the presidential mansions in New York and Philadelphia. George Washington purchased the service from the Comte de Moustier, the French minister to the United States who was leaving to return to France. When Washington resigned the presidency and retired to Mount Vernon, he took with him the china and furnishings that he had personally supplied for the presidential mansion.
label: Description
content: The Washington’s attempted to establish a dignified social style, formal but not “royal,” that would command respect for the new republic.
place: label: place made
content: France
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, White House Collection
label: Exhibition
content: First Ladies
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PL.001204
label: catalog number
content: 1204
label: accession number
content: 13152
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Fruit Dish
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/2 in x 2 in; 24.13 cm x 5.08 cm