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The Emperor Napoleon wished the seventy-two plates of the personal service to remind him of pleasant memories. As a consequence, rather than battles, they were adorned with landscapes or monuments of France, Italy, Egypt, Austria, and Prussia, alluding to his military campaigns.
This dessert plate from the service of Napoleon I in the Tuileries shows the castle of Sanssouci, painted by a landscape specialist at the Sèvres factory, Jean-François Robert (1778-1832).
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