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Explore Dutch artist Bouke de Vries’s contemporary interpretation of the eighteenth-century banquet table.

A remarkable ceramic centerpiece, created from thousands of white porcelain fragments, in the form of an epic battle will transform the dining room at Hillwood this fall. Inspired by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century centerpieces crafted in sugar and porcelain, War and Pieces is a contemporary response to this tradition.

In the seventeenth century, wealthy households decorated their tables with extravagant sugar sculptures that replicated allegorical scenes, architectural follies, or …