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"inscription": "Painter's mark of a dagger for Etienne Evans",
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"title": "Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
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"id": 223229,
"title": "Jefferson in Paris: Fashion on the Eve of the French Revolution",
"description": "Jefferson in Paris: Fashion on the Eve of the French Revolution. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 5, 2002-January 5, 2003).",
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"description": "These dishes may have supported cups of sweet ices or pyramidal displays of fruits or sweetmeats as part of a dessert or tea service. On the reverse of the plate the two birds pictured are identified as a Petit Perruche, du P\u00e9rou (budgerigar from Peru) and Harle hupp\u00e9, M\u00e2le (male red-breasted merganser.) Their images were modeled after engravings in naturalist Georges-Louis Leclerc\u2019s Natural History of Birds, a book which regularly inspired S\u00e8vres porcelain paintings in the 1780s and 90s.",
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