Plate with imaginary portrait of the tragic poet Moschion, 1811–18, French, Sèvres, Hard-paste porcelain, Diameter: 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm), Ceramics-Porcelain, The decorators at Sèvres painted cameos in a way that convincingly captures the stones' translucency. This plate was one of seventy-two in the service iconographique grec. One set went to Napoleon's uncle Cardinal Fesch, another to a member of Pope Pius VII's entourage
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