Canadian Historical Dinner Service | |
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Artist | Alice Egan, Lily Osman Adams, Phoebe Amelia Watson and others |
Year | 1897 |
Type | Dinner service |
Medium | Painted ceramics |
Subject | Canada |
Dimensions | 24 place settings for eight courses |
Owner | National Trust for Scotland, Edinburgh |
The Canadian Historical Dinner Service, originally called the Cabot Commemorative State Dinner Service, is 204-piece eight-course dinner service with 24 place settings of hand-painted porcelain. It was created in 1896–97 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first visit to Canada by a European, John Cabot. The illustrations all have Canadian subjects, and no two pieces are the same.