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[Utensils of the officer de bouche" where ice cream or ices were kept in wooden ice buckets while waiting service and different moulds]" – Antique Wall Art

[Utensils of the officer de bouche" where ice cream or ices were kept in wooden ice buckets while waiting service and different moulds]", Illus. in TX783.G48 1768 [Rare Book RR] — historic print
[Utensils of the officer de bouche" where ice cream or ices were kept in wooden ice buckets while waiting service and different moulds]", Illus. in TX783.G48 1768 [Rare Book RR]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This engraving lays out the working tools of the *officer de bouche*, the household officer in a French aristocratic kitchen who oversaw food and its service at the table. The plate shows wooden ice buckets, used to keep ices and ice cream packed in ice while they waited to be served, alongside a range of molds for shaping frozen desserts. It appears as an illustration in a book from 1768, held in the Library of Congress rare book collection, and its neat, separated arrangement of objects shows how carefully eighteenth-century cookery writers wanted their tools understood.

Created / publishedIllus. in TX783.G48 1768 [Rare Book RR]
Medium2002715930
Genre[no date recorded on caption card]
Subjects1 print : engraving.
SourceLibrary of Congress
Original scan1,536 × 1,252 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-158988

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