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"title": "Bowl",
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"title": "Year in Review: 1965",
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"title": "Visions of Landscape: East and West",
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"description": "As European porcelain production advanced over the course of the 18th century, factories borrowed designs and techniques from one another in order to remain competitive in the porcelain market. This plate\u2019s painted composition with two birds in the foreground, may have been inspired by bird paintings produced at the Vincennes porcelain factory beginning in the late 1740s.",
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"citation": "Peyre, Jean-Gabriel. \"Fleurons m\u00e9connus de la manufacture de Villeroy-Menncy.\" L'Estampille, no. 350 (September 2000).",
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