What is a Teacup Tuesday without a side? A beautiful apple strudel is served on a Tobacco Leaf dessert tray. We love this shape for baked goods but it can be used for so much more; sandwiches, appetizers, chocolate covered pretzel logs, asparagus, a jam and jelly tray or even in the bath to hold your secret serums!
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March 21, 2018
March 21, 2018
Three families of Rockefellers have owned this set. Learn more about the βTobacco Leafβ service, circa 1775. Estimate: $150,000-250,000 at Christieβs New York this Spring.
The voyages undertaken by Captain James Cook to the South Pacific in the 1770s aroused considerable interest among European botanists in Oriental flora. The so-called βtobacco leafβ pattern, however, may owe as much in its derivation to textile designs supplied to the East India Company as it does to any interest in plant life....
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