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Tamsin van Essen Salon du Chocolat: for the Ghost of Marie Antoinette
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Salon du Chocolat: for the Ghost of Marie Antoinette

In this decadent chocolate set, the porcelain pieces are eroded by yeast during the slip-casting process and seem to crumble away, evoking the fragile ghost of Marie Antoinette delicately drinking chocolate in her ornate salon.

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Porcelain, Chocolate set

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