Fig. 134.—Sèvres Vase, called Vase Etrusque Carafe.
A perception of this excessive ornamentation came to somebody about the year 1785, for in that year Louis XVI. bought from M. Denon a collection of Greek vases, “to serve as models of pure and simple forms, and thus change the exaggerated, exuberant contours given to porcelain in the preceding reign.”
Fig. 135.—Sèvres Vase, called “Cuve Ovale Ducereau.”