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Dish from the "Arabesque" Service

1786
Made by Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, France (1756–present) Decoration designed by Louis Le Masson (French, 1743–1829) Painted by Pierre-Antoine Méreaud (French, active 1754–1791)
This dish is part of a service that was commissioned by King Louis XVI of France (ruled 1774 to 1792). Le Masson based the decoration on engravings made after early sixteenth-century frescoes in the Vatican Loggia, which were created under the direction of Raphael. Le Masson was given access to a set of the engravings of the frescoes that had been a gift to the king from Pope Pius VI.

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