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Detail from Vermeer's Music Lesson
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SÈVRES PORCELAIN FACTORY

Chocolatière

RCIN 10891

The painted scene on this chocolate pot shows a picnic scene which is similar to a painting entitled Récreations des Moissoneurs by T. Michaud, later engraved by Jacques-Philippe Le Bas. The figures seen in the engraving have been realigned slightly to fit with the scale of the chocolate pot’s cartouche. Chocolate was believed to have health-giving properties and would be drunk at all times of day; George IV kept this example in his Confectionary at Carlton House. Acquired by George IV, probably from Robert Fogg in 1815.

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