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Fritzsche_Slide_17.jpg
35mm color slide of two shell-shaped fruit bowls (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Each dish has a dark green ground color with a large white shaped reserve at the center, containing multi-colored bouquets of flowers and fruit. The central reserve is…

Fritzsche_Slide_17_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark on one of the fruit bowls in Slide 17. The mark is for Vavasseur aîné (the elder; active 1753–70), a “painter of flowers” (Tardy 1981, 569). The number 17 is handwritten on the slide.

Fritzsche_Slide_18.jpg
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…

Fritzsche_Slide_19.jpg
35mm color slide of a plate (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The white ground color is encircled by a border of interwoven, broad green ribbons, known as “green ribands” (rubans verts), whose edges are highlighted by a delicate line of gilding. The…

Fritzsche_Slide_20.jpg
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.

Fritzsche_Slide_21.jpg
35mm color slide of a plate and wine bottle cooler (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Each piece has a bright pink ground color, with a painted landscape depicting a hunting scene, set against a white background in the center. The plate also has three…

Fritzsche_Slide_22a.jpg
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Set against a bright pink ground color is a painted landscape in a white shaped reserve, framed by gilded garlands of scrolls, foliage, and flowers. The landscape is dominated…

Fritzsche_Slide_22b.jpg
35mm color slide of a wine bottle cooler (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). Set against a bright pink ground color is a painted landscape in a white shaped reserve, framed by gilded garlands of scrolls, foliage, and flowers. This is the verso of the…

Fritzsche_Slide_22_Mark.jpg
35mm color slide of a porcelain mark for the wine-bottle cooler in Slides 22a and 22b. The mark is the letter F followed by a dot, and has not been identified. The number 22 is handwritten on the slide.

Fritzsche_Slide_23a.jpg
35mm color slide of a white teapot (Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory). The body of the teapot is adorned with blue painted flowers and white flowers in relief. Dawson describes this décor as “molded in relief with prunus” and notes that the prunus…
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