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35mm color slide of a hard-paste chocolate pot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Colorful pink, red, and blue floral bouquets are painted against a white ground. The edges are gilded with foliage and other designs. The “underside of the cover” includes…

35mm color slide of a covered sugar bowl on a boat-shaped tray (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The pale blue ground (bleu céleste) is punctuated by small white circles in a pointillé style: the white circles are bordered by darker, smaller blue dots.…

35mm color slide of a cup and socketed saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This type of saucer is termed “socketed” (enfoncé), because it has a “raised flat flange and deep socketed center” (Savill 1988, 2:674). Several scholars note that this…

35mm color slide of a breakfast service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The name losange refers to the “lozenge” or diamond shape of the tray. Its vibrant, multi-colored design was painted by Charles Louis Méreaud (ca. 1735–80; active 1756–80), a…

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 an ice cream cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Against a greenish-blue ground color, circular white reserves contain paintings of a bird and a butterfly, but neither painting is fully visible on the slide. Surrounding the…

35mm color slide of a knife handle (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). It has a white ground color, and is painted with small blue, pink, and orange flowers. The edges are gilded. The number 20 is handwritten on the slide.

35mm color slide of a knife handle (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The white ground color is overlaid with a latticework of gilt-trimmed, green bands, a style known as “green ribands” (rubans verts). In the interwoven spaces of the green ribbons are…

35mm color slide of a liqueur decanter cooler from the Asturias Service (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is a side-view of the “Liqueur Decanter Cooler” (seau à topette, slide 49a). This was a gift from Louis XV to his granddaughter Marie Louise…

35mm color slide of a litron cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The ground color is a dark blue known as the king's blue (bleu du roi), overlaid with tooled gilding of garlands, scrolls, foliage, and urns. The central reserve depicts two nude women,…