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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

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Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory(French, est. 1756)

In 1756 the porcelain manufactory that had been founded at Vincennes was transferred to the town of Sèvres. Three years later the king, Louis XV, became the principal shareholder and financial backer and had the factory designated the "Royal Porcelain Manufactory." The factory thus came under the control of the royal administration and focused on manufacturing luxury porcelain mainly for the royal family, the court, and the aristocracy.

Hard-paste porcelain was not made at Sèvres until the late 1760s, when deposits of the vital ingredient kaolin (china clay) were found in Limoges, France. Until that time, Sèvres produced wares of soft-paste porcelain. Numerous artists collaborated in the production of a single piece of porcelain, and many left their personal identification marks incised in the paste or painted over the glaze. In addition to the marks of individual craftsmen, Sèvres wares carry marks identifying them as products of the royal manufactory. Soft-paste porcelain was marked with painted crossed L's enclosing a date letter: A indicating 1753, B for 1754, and so on. When the alphabet had been exhausted in 1777, it was begun again using double letters. Hard-paste porcelain was marked in the same way, with the addition of a small crown above the crossed L's.

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Porcelain pot-pourri vessel with gilt bronze mount
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1760
Porcelain vase with ear-like forms and with images of birds in trees on a gilt bronze base
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1760
Porcelain vase with ear-like forms and with images of birds in trees on a gilt bronze base
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1760
View of tripod table from the side made with two circular plaques of Sevres porcelain held toge…
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1783
Porcelain pot-pourri vessel in purple and green with landscape scene
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1762
Porcelain pot-pourri vessel in purple and green with landscape scene
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1762
Porcelain pot-pourri vessel in purple and green with landscape scene
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
ca. 1762
Porcelain teapot in white, blue, and gold with image of birds in a tree
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1767
Porcelain milk jug in blue and gold with image of bird in water
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1767
Porcelain cup in blue and gold with bird
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1767
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