These objects, it seemed to me, were quintessentially the kind that I and my liberal left friends in London had always seen as summing up something deplorable about the French aristocracy The label had told me that these pieces were made by the Sèvres Manufactory, made of porcelain in the late 1750s, and designed by a designer called Jean-Claude Duplessis, actually somebody of extraordinary distinction as I later learned.
对我来说，似乎这些展品， 是那种典型的我和我在 伦敦的自由主义左派朋友 常看到的展品类型 当我们总结十八世纪 凄惨的法国贵族的时候。 展品上的标签告诉我这些作品 是在塞夫勒厂制作的， 材质是瓷，年代在制作于十八世纪五十年代后期， 它的设计师名叫让-克洛德·杜普蕾西丝， 但后来据我了解，