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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. This is a side view of Slide 58b. The…

35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The cup and saucer both have a blue ground decorated with stylized white bellflowers and other undulating designs, trimmed with gilding. The cup is an example of a gobelet…

35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (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 on the…

35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Both cup and saucer have a white ground, painted with multicolored designs. The saucer depicts a butterfly, bird, and flowers, while the cup is adorned with a “chinoiserie”…

35mm color slide of a litron cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The cup has a white ground, painted with a multicolored “chinoiserie” scene, depicting a pagoda and two adult figures with a small child. The gobelet litron (litron cup) has a…

35mm color slide of a litron cup and saucer (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Both objects have a white ground, adorned with bands of tooled gilding, multicolored bouquets, and a field of painted dots near the rim. The dolphin theme is prominent in…

35mm color slide of a cup (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). This is an enlarged view of Slide 55a, showing the dolphin handle and other details of gilding and painted decoration. The number 55 is handwritten on the slide.

35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for a Bouillard cup and saucer. The mark is for Jean-Baptiste Tandart aîné (the elder; 1729–1816, active 1754–1800 or 1803), who was one of the “most skilled flower-painters” of his era (Eriksen and De Bellaigue…

35mm color slide of porcelain marks for the bowl in Slide 50. The marks are for Philippe Castel (active 1772–1797), a painter of birds, ornaments, and landscapes, and for Henri-Martin Prévost (active 1757–97), a gilder (Eriksen and De Bellaigue 1987,…

35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the Calabre teapot in Slide 28. This is the painter’s mark for Antoine-Joseph Chappuis, known as Chappuis aîné (the elder; 1743–87; active 1756– or 1761–87), who specialized in birds, landscapes, and flowers…