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Oval dish with
a view of Etruria Hall in Staffordshire, from the Green
Frog service
Wedgwood factory
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The Infant
Hercules Strangling Serpents
Joshua Reynolds
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The former Small Study of the First Reserve Apartment
(architect Alexander Briullov, 1840s) continues the display of British
art. It contains paintings by Joshua Reynolds, one of the 18th-century's
outstanding artists: The Infant Hercules Strangling Serpents The
Forbearance of Scipio Africanus and Cupid Untying the Girdle
of Venus. The replicas of portraits of the British royal family
(artists Nathaniel Dance and Benjamin West) were intended for rooms
in the Chesme Palace. It was for that same complex that Catherine
II ordered the unique Green Frog service (Wedgwood factory). The display-cases
contain examples of black basaltes and jasper wares made by this firm.
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