Kanevsky answered it, and, despite having no experience or credentials, persuaded Slatkin to let him create a melon-shape porcelain tureen on spec.

WSJ: Porcelain Flowers Never Die

They will view artefacts like an ancient Celtic firedog which would have stood next to the hearth in an ancient roundhouse, a gold snuff box given to explorer HM Stanley by Queen Victoria after he found Livingstone, and a porcelain tureen and dish which was made in China in about 1760, part of a dinner service for a wealthy European family.

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