Word: starbord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Starbord House, dinners were served on an early-1800s English table from porcelain that had belonged to Madame du Barry and the Prince de Condé. The sitting room, library and foyer were crammed with rare 17th and 18th century furniture and objets d'art. When Wickes, a retired lawyer, died in 1964 at the age of 88, his heirs gave the $4,000,000 collection to the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Some 800 selections from it go on view next week. They have been exquisitely installed, with the aid of Wickes' longtime caretaker, English-born Charles...
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