Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 103
n London an exhibitionof fine Sevres, promoted by a well-known dealer.Amongst the exhibits were sixteen pieces, whichwere said to belong to the celebrated Windsorservice. That could hardly be, for only twelve were one other, in the exhibition of 1882. The Sevresarchives are of inestimable value for… … DRESDEN VASE. WITH LOUIS XV MOUNTS missing. They had been collected by another dealerof a former generation, who in 1840 had offered themto Her Majesty for £10,000. The offer—very wiselyrefused—gives some notion of the approximate valueof the entire service. These sixteen pieces havebeen compared…
