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Article: Museum accessions.(Brief Article)
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2000
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In September 1816 Louis XVIII of France was in need of a gift for Baron von Holzhausen of Frankfurt, who had sent him a portrait of the king's older brother Louis XVI. On Louis XVIII's behalf, the comte de Pradel, minister to the royal household, sent the baron the porcelain tea and coffee set, or defeuner, shown above. Made at the Manufacture royale de Sevres, it was decorated by Denis Desine Riocreux, who specialized in flower painting at the factory Set against the symmetricality of the neoclassical shapes and lavish gilding, the flowers are particularly lush and complex, on one hand reflecting Sevres's inspiration from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Dutch ...