In the grand Green Drawing Room at Buckingham Palace, see a dazzling highlight from the Royal Collection - a stunning piece of Sèvres Porcelain from 1758. Crafted for Madame de Pompadour, a royal mistress of the French King, Louis XV, this ship-shaped vase was designed to release fragrant potpourri through its rigging-like top into the opulent halls of Versailles. Purchased by by George IV, only ten such vases now exist.

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