Cheese Dome
Attributed to
Adams & Co.
(American, active 1851 - 1891)
Date1875-1891
MediumPressed glass
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/4 × 7 1/16in. (15.9 × 17.9cm)
ClassificationsCULINARY ARTIFACTS
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Terms
Object number77.103
DescriptionPattern is called "Owl & Pussycat." Depicts owls and cats on brick wall with palm trees, tree stumps, crescent moon. Missing the matching underplate.On View
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Label Text“The usual mode of serving cheese at good tables is to cut a small quantity of it into neat square pieces, and to put them into a glass cheese-dish, this dish being handed round.”
--Mrs. Isabella Beeton, Mrs. Beeton’s Book of Household Management, 1859.
“Ladies seldom take cheese at dinner parties, or wine at dessert. Cheese is eaten with a fork, and not with a knife.”
--Sensible Etiquette, 1878.
