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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 2391689, member: 5833&quot;]Usually &#039;art nouveau&#039; &amp; &#039;art deco&#039; are not used to mean a time period unless the thing being described is also in the appropriate style, while something from a later time may be described as art deco if it is in that style.&nbsp; The deco time period was the Roaring Twenties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is your question how to recognize the styles or how to definitively date things to the period when the style was popular?</p><p><br /></p><p>Biscuit jars are typically the same diameter/width all the way down, not tapered like the first vessel.&nbsp; Hoping someone who knows Victorian table ware will stop by &amp; tell us what it is.&nbsp; Pickle castor?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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