Wax Fruit and Dessert Dome

Wax sculpture depicting fruit in a brown wicker basket supported by a porcelain pedestal and crowned with a scarlet tanager, surrounded by various desserts and beverages in glass and porcelain receptacles.

Mary J. Norris made the dome prior to marrying Richard P. Sheppard. She brought it from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Tuckahoe, New Jersey once married. Her son, Edgar C. Sheppard, inherited the dome, then passed it on to his wife, Elizabeth Cordelia Haines (daughter of Emma Jane Marshall and sister of Sarah Jeane Haines Anderson) after his death. Henceforth, the dome resided at the 1818 Thomas Chew Marshall House, descending in the Marshall family line through Sarah Jeane Anderson's daughter Margaret, even though a Marshall did not create it.