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35mm color slide of a Calabre teapot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The théière Calabre (Calabre teapot) was named in honor of Pierre Calabre, one of the factory’s shareholders, and later became “the most commonly made of all Sèvres teapots” (Dawson…

35mm color slide of a pomade pot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground adorned with gilded molding. At the center of the body is a painting of an exotically colorful bird perched on a branch. This type of pomade pot represents a new…

35mm color slide of a plate (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a turquoise ground color around the rim, white ground in the center, and scalloped edges. At the center of the white well is the gilded monogram LPR, for Prince Louis de Rohan, “in…

35mm color slide of a tray (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This undulating trapezoidal object was previously identified as a plateau Duvaux (Duvaux Tray), but Linda Roth, Clare Le Corbeiller, and Rosalind Savill identify it as a plateau Duplessis…

35mm color slide of a plate (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Its rim has a green ground color with “partridge eye” decoration (œil de perdrix), which consists of white circles framed by colored dots, each highlighted by a prominent gilded dot at the…

35mm color slide of a white milk cup (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). It has no handles, and is octagonally shaped, with eight delicately curved panels. As visible in this slide, two of the panels are decorated with raised flowers in relief, and…

35mm color slide of a teapot in the Queen's style (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). On both the body and lid are white, shaped reserves set against a dark blue ground color (bleu lapis), framed by gilded trellises and garlands of foliage and…

35mm color slide of a yellow mustard-pot tray (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). It has scalloped, gilded edges and three white reserves, 2 oval on the sides, and 1 circular in the middle (for the mustard pot), all with gilt trim. The blue birds,…