. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . SIDEBOARD, TEA-TABLE, AND PUNCH-BOWL. Tlie great porcelain punch-bowl delineated in the engraving,has a deep blue border at the rim, spangled with gilt starsand dots. It was made expressly for Washington, but when,where, and by whom is not known. In the bottom is a pictureof a frigate, and on the side are the initials 6. W., in gold,upon a shield with ornamental sur-roundings. It is supposed to havebeen presented to Washington bythe French naval officers. If so, itwas doubtless manufactur
. The home of Washington; or, Mount Vernon and its associations, historical, biographical, and pictorial . SIDEBOARD, TEA-TABLE, AND PUNCH-BOWL. Tlie great porcelain punch-bowl delineated in the engraving,has a deep blue border at the rim, spangled with gilt starsand dots. It was made expressly for Washington, but when,where, and by whom is not known. In the bottom is a pictureof a frigate, and on the side are the initials 6. W., in gold,upon a shield with ornamental sur-roundings. It is supposed to havebeen presented to Washington bythe French naval officers. If so, itwas doubtless manufactured andsent over at the time when the Cin-cinnati china was forwarded. Tliere are two massive silver can-dlesticks, with extinguishers andsnuffers of the same metal, at Ar-lington House, that once belongedto Washington. These formed apart of his furniture after his retirement from the army, in. WASHINGTONS SILVER CANDLESTICK. 318 MOUNT \^ERNON 1783, and are a portion of Lis plate not remodelled afterwardin New York. How manj interesting associations are made to clusteraround these simple utensils of domestic use, at tlie sugges-tions of fancy and conjecture! Perhaps almost eveiy distin-guished European—Lafayette, Rochambeau, Chastellux, IIou-don. Pine, Mousiier, Brissot, DYrujo, Graham—as well asequally distinguished Americans who have spent a night atMount Yernon—bore one of them to the bedchamber. Perhaps they were used by Washington himself at hiswriting-table or by the fireside, or to light the conjugalchamber. And it is quite possible that the master bore oneof them on the occasion mentioned in the following paragraphfrom the pen of Elkanah Watson, when describing his visit atMount Yernon: The first evening I spent under the wing of Washingtonshospitality, we sat a fall hour at table by ourselves, withoutthe least interiuption. After the family had retired, I wase
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