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Pair of vases (vase grec Duplessis rectifié)
Sèvres, Manufacture de1780
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
In 1782 the Russian crown prince –later Tsar Paul I –and his consort sojourned in Paris. They visited the porcelain factory in Sèvres, where King Louis XVI made them a generous gift of numerous pieces of porcelain. They themselves bough many items, including these two vases. The couple displayed them in their palace in Pavlovsk.
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- Title: Pair of vases (vase grec Duplessis rectifié)
- Creator: Sèvres, Manufacture de
- Date Created: 1780
- Physical Dimensions: porselein
- Rights: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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