A manual of pottery and porcelain for American collectors (1872)
Treadwell, John H · New York, Putnam · leaf 149
orthree years since, several exquisite specimens of Sevresware were exposed at public auction. In every instancethey brought prices far below their real value, not fromdisregard, but from a want of critical knowledge of theware itself. Probably the most extensive collection of Se-vres ware in this… … No. 25.—Sevres Vase.(In possession of Gen. John A. Dix.) FRANCE. 145 possession a pair of elegant vases presented him by Na-poleon III. on the event of his retiring from the Ameri-can ministry at the French capital. One of these vasesis reproduced in Cut No. 25. To complete the chapter upon Sevres…
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