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Vase

c. 1763
Made by Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, France (1756–present)
The scene painted on this vase - "the broken clog" - has an erotic significance, that of the loss of virginity, that would have been immediately recognized by the eighteenth-century viewer.

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