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| Hertford House, on Manchester Square, a beautiful old town home; the Collection is that of Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford and his son, Richard Wallace; given to the nation by his family, opened in the early 1900s |
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| Just about every room is replete both with paintings and with fine furniture, porcelain, etc; actually, "fine" doesn't begin to capture it... |
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| The ceramics are all over the museum, the largest collection of Sevres in the world; and more Meissens than we saw in Dresden |
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| Ditto |
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| There are more than 500 pieces of furniture, mostly 18th century French (evidently could be had for a song after 1789), many Boulles; here, the Levasseur Grand Bibliotheque, 1775; I must learn something about furniture some day (presently I can only distinguish between Ethan Allen and Ikea) |
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| Despite everything else, here's the one most memorable and revealing item at the Wallace:a 1793 poster advertising the auction of furniture from the Petit Trianon..."meubles et effets" |
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| Made for Marie Antoinette, 1780 |
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| Louis XV's perpetual whom-to-pray-to-which-day calendar |
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| Ditto |
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| And there were several large halls of arms and armor; and more; stupendous place... |
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