Manufacturer: Carr China Company
User: Brennan's Restaurant
Distributor: Loubat's – New Orleans
Date of pedestal cup: circa 1946-1952

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Notes: We've seen this pattern commonly called Diable/Diablo or Jester King but have not yet found it in a Carr catalog.

The pattern was ordered for Brennan's Restaurant in New Orleans, and we've only seen it on Café Brûlot pedestal cups. The pattern can also be found by many different manufacturers.

Brennan's Restaurant, located at 417 Royal St., in New Orleans, La., was founded by Owen Brennan in 1946. It was originally on Bourbon Street but moved to its Royal Street location in 1956.

The building and patio, one of the Vieux Carre's most interesting, was erected in 1795, during the twilight of Spanish rule over Louisiana by Don Jose Faurie, a wealthy merchant.

Later the building housed The Louisiana Bank, first banking institution in the Louisiana Territory. Later still, it was the home of Paul Murphy, a world-famous chess champion, who lived there until his death in 1884.

When the restaurant moved to the Royal Street location in 1956, it initially leased the building from Tulane University, which owned it at that time. However, the Brennans purchased the building in 1984.

Brennan's creole cuisine is world renowned. Breakfast at Brennan's is a very colorful ceremony, including gin fizz Eggs Hussarde, Banana Foster and crepe suzettes.

White body pedestal cup and saucer with a burnt orange band around the top of the cup, both outside and inside, and a matching band around the base of the pedestal cup. The saucer has the same burnt orange band around the outer rim. Both the cup and saucer have a drawing of a caped figure in the same burnt orange suspended over the flames of a fire.

Restaurant website: http://www.brennansneworleans.com

Contributors:
Susan and Ed Phillips