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Authenticity and Authorship: The Chocolate Kitchens at Hampton Court Palace
Figure 7. Recreated Chocolate Frame, Historic Royal Palaces
Figure 8. Fragment of Chocolate Cup found in the palace moat in 1910, Historic
Royal Palaces
The other items that we re-created to fill the chocolate room were glass and ceramic wares. Wine glasses and
sweet meat glasses featured strongly in confectionary rooms (which often doubled up as chocolate rooms) in
the country houses of esteemed courtiers. We relied heavily on the inventories of Boughton House, the home
of George Montagu, and coincidentally the man tasked with furnishing Hampton Court for William III (Murdoch,
Briggs, & Lindey, 2006). All the items were based on extant examples from museum collections and they
were made using identical techniques and identical early eighteenth century recipes for re-creating glass.
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