Nearly forgotten but glorious art, envisionings and historical oddments from the back corners of the internet
Porcelain to dream of of a Edwardian sort. Plates from “Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan”. Privately published in Paris in 1910. J. P.’s bedtime reading, no doubt.
“Vase Duplessis, fond vert, en porcelain de Vincennes.” 1745-1753. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain in the United States because the maker has been dead over 70 years. via https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesporc00morg/page/n116“Figurine en porcelaine blanche émaillée de Vincennes.” 1747. French. Fournier, maker. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain in the United States because the maker has been dead over 70 years. via https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesporc00morg/page/n76
“Deux petit caisses, fond vert, en porcelaine de Vincennes.” 1753. Sevres, maker. Collection of and digitalized by the Getty Research Institute. In the public domain in the United States because the maker has been dead over 70 years. via https://archive.org/details/cataloguedesporc00morg/page/n104
On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.
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