Left: Central Vase (Minerva Protects Telemachus and preserves him from Cupid's darts), 1781, Sèvres Manufactory. Soft paste porcelain with gilt and enamel. Getty Museum. Right: Vase, 1775–1776, Sèvres Manufactory. Hard-paste porcelain with gilt-bronze mounts. National Museum of the Palaces of Versailles and Trianon. Photo © RMN-Grand Palais / Art Resource, NY / Christophe Fouin
Spotlight Tour: Porcelain from Versailles
GETTY CENTER
Museum Entrance Hall
This is a past event
This 20-minute tour showcases two of the most extraordinary surviving sets of vases owned by King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. Widely considered among the highest achievements of porcelain made before the French Revolution, this exhibition reunites the vases for the first time.
Tours are first come, first served. Please arrive 15 minutes early to secure your spot at the Information Desk.
This tour will not be held September 2 and 3.