ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATE SERVICE PORCELAIN SOUP BOWL,

ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATE SERVICE PORCELAIN SOUP BOWL, (image 1/2)
ABRAHAM LINCOLN STATE SERVICE PORCELAIN SOUP BOWL, (image 2/2)
Pricing & History
French, ca 1861. A Haviland, Limoges porcelain soup bowl from the state service made for President Abraham Lincoln. The center printed and painted with a brown eagle clasping a laurel branch and a cluster of arrows in his talons, and standing on a red, white and blue shield above a pink banderole inscribed E PLURIBUS UNUM, the purple-ground rim edged with a border of gilt dots and "Alhambra" tracery. Ht. 1.5, dia. 9.4 in. The "Solferino" or "Royal Purple" service, as it became known, was ordered by the First Lady, Mary Todd Lincoln, from Messrs. E. V. Haughwout & Co. in May of 1861 during a shopping visit to New York City to purchase furnishings for the White House as well as a formal dinner service. "Solferino", a rich puce color, had been made fashionable by the French in about 1859, and Mrs. Lincoln perpetuated the vogue by employing it liberally in the interior decoration of the executive mansion. The service was delivered to the White House on September 2, 1861, and numbered 658 pieces, including a dinner service of 190 pieces, a dessert service of 208 pieces, and a breakfast and tea service of 260 pieces. The total cost was $3,195.00. Following President Andrew Johnson's arrival at the White House, it was decided that replacements for this service must be purchased, and in January, 1866, E. V. Haughwout received an order for read more
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