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In the entire literature devoted to art history there is at present only one periodical article that deals exclusively with  Duplessis. The archives and libraries in and around Paris offer a sizeable quantity of primary source material regarding Duplessis, and there is also archival material in Turin where he spent the early part of his life. Works of art by or attributable to him are in almost every major public and private collection of eighteenth century French decorative art in the world and in some that are not so major. His earliest known extant work, a brazier, is in the Topkapi Saray, for example. A bouquet of about seventy porcelain flowers, mounted in bronze, which Duplessis designed and which is one of the great artistic and technological achievements in the history of ceramics, is in Dresden and another version of the same object is in the British Royal Collection. The bureau du roi Louis XV, for which Duplessis designed the mounts and which is probably the most important piece of furniture made in France during the eighteenth century, is at Versailles. A number of objects attributable to Duplessis are in the Louvre, the Wallace Collection, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum as well as in such private collections as those belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, Mr. and Mrs. Russell B. Aitken and Mr. and Mrs. Germain Seligman in New York. Members of the Rothschild family in Paris and M. Antenor Patiño, also in Paris, possess works of art that I believe are attributable to Duplessis. In addition, several works of art attributable to Duplessis are on the art market at the present time. I forsee