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- An epergne (/ɪˈpɜːrn, eɪ-/ ih-PURN, ay-) is a type of table centerpiece that is usually made of silver but may be made of any metal or gl**** or porcelain...
- items. Traditional types for the very formal dining table include the epergne, with branching arms ending in bowls, and the surtout de table, in English...
- Chinese community of the settlement gifted Farquhar with an ornate silver epergne bearing crests, a Latin inscription, and the hallmark "1825". Shortly after...
- the two bowls has also been polished. (These pieces are part of an 18th-century silver epergne in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art)....
- writings he extolled the virtues of a ''magazine of taste'', a "pyramidical epergne" which could also be made into a portable traveling case, and which contained...
- man-about-town, in fact a bon vivant[citation needed] double entendre epergne legerdemain (supposedly from, léger de main, literally, "light of hand")...
- Comedy censored by the Spanish Inquisition, and Bishop Strachan's silver epergne. Among the University of Toronto Colleges, Trinity is notable for being...
- at its most elaborate. The monumental silver and parcel-gilt "Neptune" epergne made for Furber as part of this service was displa**** at the Philadelphia...
- Victoria Bridge Silver Epergne gifted to builder William York, Esq. Hallmarked London, 1854...
- its rise has been astonishing." In 1792 he was presented with a silver epergne for speaking in favour of the slave trade to a parliamentary committee...