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Lucy Webb Hayes' basket
Longwy, France1879
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Fremont, United States
French chinaware shaped like a bouquet basket with twisted blue handle. Primary color is blue with Japanese figures and a floral design; inside of basket is cream colored with multi-colored flowers on the sides and bottom and a border of red flowers with blue and green leaves around inside edge; marked on the bottom (under felt) ʺLongwy 8 D536ʺ; green tag ʺ24ʺ; ʺD536ʺ on china.
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- Title: Lucy Webb Hayes' basket
- Creator: Longwy, France
- Date: 1879
- Physical Location: Fremont, Ohio
- Provenance: Per documentation in Thomas C. Donaldson's memoirs, ʺI (Donaldson) walk with her (Lucy Hayes) to her chamber. On a table sat a nice piece of French china ware in shape of a bouquet basket. She said that while in Philadelphia in November last, she was with Mr. J.L. Claghorn, I think at the Vatican. Mr. Claghorn said, 'Mrs. Hayes, anything in this room is at your disposal; so choose.' She declined (as she said to me, ʺYou know Mrs. Hayes never suggests anything or takes anything.ʺ) A few days after, in December (this month), this basket came here with the compliments of Mr. Claghorn whom she esteemed very much.ʺ - December 22, 1879. NOTE: This basket can be seen in aframed photograph of the Hayes bedroom in the White Hous. That photograph today hangs in the Hayes Home in Fremont, Ohio.
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