A book of porcelain, fine examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum (1910)
Rackham, Bernard, 1876-1964, Gibb, William · London, A. & C. Black · leaf 140
course ofwhich he had doubtless had opportunities of forming apersonal judgment of the merits of the French royalporcelain. It is not surprising therefore that he shouldhave thought of a set of Sevres china as a suitable ILAIK :;.-, lea].iot, (lirNea, iv a senice jjaintecl nitli… … SiiVRES 59 present to mark the occasion of the treaty ; he invokedto assist him in his choice a friend of earher days, thewriter JNIarmontel, to whom he communicated his desiresthrough his ambassador at the French Court, the baronde Stael. The circumstances of the purchase are fullyrelated in the…
Victoria and Albert Museum · Pottery
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