This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary idea

Throughout the eighteenth century, France was a place of intense scientific enquiry and innovative research. One of the most exciting discoveries of the period

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