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Only in the gilding does it differ from the plates made for the Louis XVI service.' and no. 138, pp. 213-4 for another plate in the Royal Collection with a scene derived from the same source:<i> Les Bacchantes endormies</i> engr. by René Gaillard after François Boucher."}],"production":"See correspondence and curators' notes in Register","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["C.452-1921"],"accessionNumberNum":"452","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":1921,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-08","recordCreationDate":"2004-06-07","availableToBook":false}}