#vincennes manufactory

[met-european-sculpture]

Hercules and Omphale by Vincennes Manufactory, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199344

[luckymohair]

ceramic horses:

1. Horse, c. 1750, Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory French, Soft-paste porcelain, H. 17.1 cm (6 3/4 in.)

2. Horse, Japan, 401 CE–500 CE, Earthenware, 79 × 84.5 × 28.5 cm (31 1/8 × 33 1/4 × 11 1/4 in.)

[arthistorydaily]

Turquoise Porcelain Cup with gold decoration, Manufacture de Sèvres, France, ca. 1775 - 1799

RIJKS Amsterdam Provenance: donated by J.G.A.N. de Vries in 1925

BK-NM-13949 The manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the principal European porcelain manufactories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1738, which moved to Sèvres in 1756. It has been owned by the French crown or government since 1759, and has always maintained the highest standards of quality. 

Its production is still largely based on the creation of contemporary objects today. It became part of the Cité de la céramique with the Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres in 2010 and since 2012 with the Musée national Adrien Dubouché in Limoges.

[text source: @wikipedia ]

[cooperhewitt]

A French Porcelain Cup for “English Cream”

On July 14th, France and many other nations around the world celebrated French National Day, also known as Bastille Day. The date is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille, which took place in 1789, and marked a turning point in the French Revolution. These days, this national occasion is usually marked with parades, fireworks, and, one can only imagine, good food and wine. So, it seemed apt to observe this historic moment with a French-themed Object of the Day post.

This dainty, sweet looking object is a custard pot dating from about 1770. Manufactured by the Mennecy porcelain factory, it is made of soft-paste porcelain, with a finely ribbed surface with polychrome overglaze decoration of floral sprays. The knob on the lid is modeled after a pink apple with a green leaf, and emphasizes the natural theme of the object’s ornamentation. The pink enamels used on this particular object are very characteristic of the Mennecy factory.

The Mennecy porcelain factory was situated to the south of Paris. When in 1748 the Council of State prohibited the manufacture of porcelain in Paris in favor of the newly privileged wares of the factory in nearby Vincennes, François Barbin and his wife moved his porcelain establishment outside the city to Mennecy and under the protection of Louis-François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy.[i] Mennecy porcelain is of the soft-paste variety rather than ‘true’ porcelain, which is characterized by a hard, white body of the type that ceramic wares from Asia and the Meissen porcelain manufactory in Germany are usually made of.[ii]

What drew my attention to this object was its use as a custard cup. The French term for custard is crème anglaise. The date of the work’s manufacture positions it within a time period when Anglomania was in full swing in France. At its core, Anglomania was a ‘craze’ for all things English. Serving a crème anglaise at a dinner in 18th century France reflected the host’s up-to-the-minute style and good taste, but, with the Revolution on the horizon, the fashionable vessel and the custard it contained could very well have been viewed as a display of bourgeois excess.

Zenia Malmer focuses on the intersection of food and design history. She is a volunteer in the Product Design and Decorative Arts Department. @hungry.historian.

[i] https://collection.cooperhewitt.org/people/18044465/

[ii] http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O99362/vase-mennecy-porcelain-factory/

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[acrosscenturiesandgenerations]

▪Pot à lait à trois pieds/Milk Jug. Maker: Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, factory, France, Sèvres Pajou, Augustin, painter, French artist, 1730-1809, France, Sèvres. Date: ca. 1754 — circa 1755 The jug bears the date letter B for 1754-55 Style: Rococo Period/Date: mid-18th Century; Louis XV

[the-met-art]

Bullfinch (one of a pair) by Vincennes Manufactory, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1954 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/201737

[emvidal]

Post loved to display her many sets of fine dinnerware at the estate, representing a range of colours and patterns. One fine example is this Soup Tureen from the Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory, dating to 1754. This vibrant blue was highly valued, a signature colour of the factory at the time.

[ivyantique]

The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the principal European porcelain manufactories. It is located in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine, France. It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740, which moved to Sèvres in 1756. It has been owned by the French crown or government since 1759, and has always maintained the highest standards of quality. Almost immediately, it replaced Meissen porcelain as the standard-setter among European porcelain factories, retaining this position until at least the 19th century.

[dawnpanorama-blog]

VIDEO:  Sevres Porcelain Manufactory - Paris Part of the Series: Masters of Design & Decoration Collection Exero Films

David Cameo

The Sevres 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 Sevres, 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 Sevres 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.

https://www.kanopystreaming.com/wayf/video/sevres-porcelain-manufactory-paris

[met-european-sculpture]

Wine glass cooler (seau à verre), Vincennes Manufactory, ca. 1750, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of Mrs. Morris Hawkes, 1924 Size: 4 × 4 1/8 in. (10.2 × 10.5 cm) Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/195203

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Here is one of the first works to have been realised by the porcelain painter Charles-Nicolas Dodin (1734-1803) during his time at the Manufactory of Vincennes. Aged only 22 at the time and considered one of the best in his field, the intensity of the colours and intricacy of this work demonstrate this painter's virtuosity. Come and follow the lizard here lying at the woman sat on a rock's feet and admire this highly colourful work, which rather interestingly remains the only known work of Dodin's to have been sculpted, glazed and gilded!

[cooperhewitt]

A Very Functional Form

This verriere defines the classification of objects we call decorative arts: something that is both beautiful and functional. The function of the verriere is to cool wine glasses by inverting them and resting the feet and stems on the curved rim of the vessel, with the bowls immersed in cold water or ice. This type of object was first made in silver in the seventeenth century and later in porcelain, as in this case.

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory was founded in Vincennes in France in 1738 and later moved to the town of Sèvres in order to be closer to the manufactory’s owner, Louis XV, at Versailles. Although the secret to making hard-paste, or “true” porcelain, had been discovered at the Meissen manufactory in 1710 in Germany, Sèvres had not yet cracked the elusive code and was thus producing soft-paste porcelain.

Sèvres was particularly renowned for its superlative painted designs, and the manufactory’s painters specialized in depicting animals and flowers. This verriere is decorated with several very naturalistic sprays of flowers and blue and gold borders.

Cooper Hewitt also owns a related drawing of a remarkably similar verriere, perhaps a preparatory work by the painter, who might be Jacques-François Micaud, one of Sèvres’ celebrated floral specialists.

  Nick Stagliano is a master’s student in the Cooper Hewitt/Parsons History of Design and Curatorial Studies program with a special interest in ceramics. He is a Curatorial Fellow in the Product Design and Decorative Arts Department at Cooper Hewitt.

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[met-european-sculpture]

Hercules and Omphale by Vincennes Manufactory, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199344

[met-european-sculpture]

Hercules and Omphale by Vincennes Manufactory, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199344

[met-european-sculpture]

Hercules and Omphale by Vincennes Manufactory, Metropolitan Museum of Art: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199344

[met-european-sculpture]

Hercules and Omphale by Vincennes Manufactory, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1943 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Soft-paste porcelain

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/199344