Sèvres

Porcelain has been made in Sèvres, France, since 1769, when the Manufacture Royale de Porcelaine de France was established. Soft paste porcelain had been made in nearby Vincennes, France, since 1743, but that factory merged with the new one in Sèvres. Eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Sèvres porcelains were known for their jeweled decorations and for […]