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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLAQUE , a See also:

French See also:term for a small See also:flat See also:plate or tablet, applied particularly to rectangular or circular ornamental plates or tablets of See also:bronze, See also:silver, See also:lead or other See also:metal, or of See also:porcelain or See also:ivory. Small plaques, plaquettes, in See also:low See also:relief in bronze or lead, were produced in See also:great perfection in See also:Italy at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th centuries, and were usually copies of See also:ancient engraved gems, earlier See also:goldsmith See also:work and the like.

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