Garniture

A garniture is a number or collection of any matching, but usually not identical, decorative objects intended to be displayed together.

Most commonly a garniture is a collection of three matching pieces designed for the adornment of a mantlepiece; for example: a clock and two flanking vases or candelabra.

Factory records show that some examples of the Sèvres pot-pourri vase in the shape of a ship were bought as garnitures with other smaller shapes decorated in the same colours (which varied greatly between individual examples).

One example is a collection of figurines, candlesticks or epergnes designed to adorn a surtout de table.

[3] Other uses of the word include a matching array of plate armour and its accessories, often with different types of the same pieces for different occasions, known as "pieces of exchange",[4] sets of weapons with their fittings, and in French restaurant terminology, the "trimmings" or garnish around the main element of a dish.

A garniture of an ormolu clock and candelabra
Garniture of three Bristol porcelain vases, c. 1773, painted by Michel Socquet.
The garniture of Greenwich armour for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester , as recorded in their pattern book, the Jacob album