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Sèvres plate Figure 126: Sevres vase and cover decorated in reserved panels by Morin, France, 1780. Made for presentation to King Gustav III of Sweden. In the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Height 49.5 cm.
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Sèvres plate Plate, soft-paste porcelain with overglaze enamel decoration, gilding by Sèvres porcelain factory, Vincennes and Sèvres, France, 1787; in the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

Sèvres porcelain

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Sèvres porcelain, French hard-paste, or true, porcelain as well as soft-paste porcelain (a porcellaneous material rather than true porcelain) made at the royal factory (now the national porcelain factory) of Sèvres, near Versailles, from 1756 until the present; the industry was located earlier at Vincennes. On the decline of Meissen after 1756 from its supreme position as the arbiter of fashion, Sèvres became the leading porcelain factory in Europe. Perhaps the major factor contributing to...

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