Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

      Coordinates: 48°49′43″N 2°13′21″E / 48.82861°N 2.22250°E / 48.82861; 2.22250

      French porcelain
      Sèvres Clodion vase.jpg

      Clodion vase. Hard-paste
      porcelain and gilt bronze, 1817.
      Manufacture nationale de Sèvres.
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      The manufacture nationale de Sèvres is a Frit porcelain porcelain tendre factory at Sèvres, France. Formerly a royal, then an imperial factory, the facility is now run by the Ministry of Culture.

      Brief history

      The Sèvres company was founded in 1738.[1] In 1740, the Vincennes manufactory was created, with the support of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour.

      In 1756, the factory moved to Sèvres, near Madame de Pompadour's Bellevue Palace. This new building, 130 meters longer, was built between 1753 to 1756 with Lindet as architect. It became a royal factory in 1759.

      Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis served as artistic director of the Vincennes porcelain manufactory and its successor at Sèvres from 1748 to his death in 1774. Louis-Simon Boizot was director between 1774 and 1800; Alexandre Brogniart director between 1800 to 1847; and Henri Victor Regnault director beginning in 1854.

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      Notable artists

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      Gallery

      • Elephant vases, painted by Charles Nicolas Dodin, c 1760 (Walters Art Museum)

      • Vase à vaisseau, 1764 (Walters Art Museum)

      • Sèvres sucrier and cover - pot à sucre Bouret shape - circa 1770

      • Potpourri vase ovale Mercure in early Neoclassical taste, c. 1770 (Walters Art Museum)

      • Sèvres dinnerware from the service “riche en couleurs et riche en or” ordered in 1784 for the queen Marie-Antoinette.

      • Sèvres manufactured for Louis XVI a series of vases. This example, with the infants and a "bleu nouveau" ground color, bear classical scenes and an additional decoration of "jewels" composed of enamel drops over gold foil.

      • The Toilet of Madame: Hard-paste porcelain, marble, gilt on bronze. Portraying a domestic scene from upper-class life.

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      See also

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      References

      1. ^ Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory | People | Collection of Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
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