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35mm color slide of a glass cooler (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). It has two small handles. Two intertwined orange flowers, with insects interspersed around their leaves, are painted atop the white ground color. The seau à verre (glass cooler)…

35mm color slide of a glass cooler (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). It has two small handles. A large purple flower and a butterfly are painted atop the white ground color. The seau à verre (glass cooler) was a smaller version of the traditional…

35mm color slide of a glass cooler (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). It has two small handles. A large purple flower and a butterfly are painted atop the white ground color. The seau à verre (glass cooler) was a smaller version of the traditional…

35mm color slide of a wine cooler, half-bottle size (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). The rim and base are gilded. The body is painted with a colorful landscape that includes trees, buildings, a bridge over a river, and a person fishing. Sassoon…

35mm color slide of a wine cooler, half-bottle size (Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory). The rim and base are gilded. The body is painted with a colorful landscape that includes trees, buildings, a lake or river, and a person fishing. Sassoon notes…

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,…