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35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the litron cup in Slide 29. This is believed to be the mark for Fallot (active 1764–90), a “ground color worker, painter, gilder, burnisher, and enameller,” who is particularly known for inventing his own…

35mm color slide of a pitcher (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This type of pitcher is known as a broc ordinaire, which refers to a pitcher without a cover, in contrast to the covered style known as broc couvert (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 232).…

35mm color slide of a Bouillard cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Its vibrant, richly colored design was painted by Charles Louis Méreaud (ca. 1735–80; active 1756–80), a painter and gilder known for his flowers, garlands, ornaments, and…

35mm color slide of a Calabre teapot, litron cup, and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The ground of all three objects is a distinctive geometrical pattern, resulting in a field of blue diamonds and squares, framed by criss-crossing white…

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 porcelain mark for the pomade pot in Slide 33. The mark is for Étienne Evans (active 1752–1806), a painter of “birds, butterflies, landscapes, and flowers,” whose painter’s mark was a dagger (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987, 149,…

35mm color slide of a cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The décor on this piece is known as feuille de choux (cabbage-leaf). Rosalind Savill suggests that the term feuille de choux refers not only to the white reserves, which are shaped…

35mm color slide of an octagonal tea canister (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The dark blue ground color is known as gros bleu (full blue), alternatively termed bleu du roi (the king’s blue). A painted reserve on each side of the canister contains…

35mm color slide of an octagonal tea canister (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The dark blue ground color is known as gros bleu (full blue), alternatively termed bleu du roi (the king’s blue). A painted reserve on each side of the canister contains…

35mm color slide of a tea canister (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This slide is identical to Slide 35b.