954789 Vase, Vivant Denon, \'Egyptian\' Porcelain Service, Sevres, 1806 (porcelain with paint & gilt) by Denon, Dominique Vivant (1747-1825); Kuskovo Estate Museum, Moscow, Russia; (add.info.: Service given by Napoleon Bonaparte to Tzar Alexander I in 1807. The plates\' views are from illustrations by Vivant Denon (1747-1825) for the published description of his journey to Egypt during Bonaparte\'s 1798 campaign, Voyage dans la Basse et la Haute Egypte (1802). Denon was an artist, curator and author who worked in Italy and France and was Napoleon\'s Minister of Arts and first director of the Mus矇e Napol矇on (Louvre) (1802-15). ).