“It’s so exaggerated by current standards of taste that I think it’s very hard for us to appreciate it today.”
Curator Jeff Munger on an eighteenth-century broth bowl produced by the Vincennes factory in France.
Morning Catch
Jeffrey H. Munger
2 min. watch
Contributors
Jeffrey H. Munger
Curator
Curator
Photography by Paul Lachenauer
Rights & Permissions
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Serenade No. 13 for strings in G Major), K. 525, III. Minuetto: Allegretto
Art Mentioned
Manufactory Vincennes Manufactory
ca. 1752–53
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