Sèvres

Sèvres

Author: Marie Noëlle Pinot de Villechenon

Publisher: Ben Uri Gallery & Museum

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Exquisite collection traces history of porcelain. Renowned Paris museum.


Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain

Vincennes and Sèvres Porcelain

Author: Adrian Sassoon

Publisher: Getty Publications

Published: 1992-03-12

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 0892361735

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This volume documents the Getty Museum's important holdings of Vincennes and Sèvres porcelain. Entries are arranged in chronological order and include descriptions, commentary, and a complete bibliography and exhibition list. Every object is illustrated in color and all incised and painted marks are reproduced. The volume also includes an index of painters, gilders, and previous owners.


The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory

Author: Beatrice Pannequin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1997-01-01

Total Pages: 431

ISBN-13: 0300073380

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The tumultuous years of the French Revolution left France’s prestigious decorative arts industries poised on the brink of ruin. It was not until after the fall of the monarchy and the ascendancy of the Consulat and Empire under Napoleon that they began to recover so that by the middle of the nineteenth century they stood at the pinnacle of their achievement. This book is the first in depth study of the renowned porcelain works at Sèvres during its virtual rebirth under the 47 year direction of the scientist, teacher, and administrator Alexandre Brongniart. Some 110 working drawings from the Sèvres Archive are reproduced here for the first time in color. They celebrate the high skill of the artists whose work often documented contemporary events in France. There are table services in the 'Egyptian' and 'Etruscan' taste as well as individual pieces that recall Napoleonic military campaigns. There are also exquisite Neoclassical decorations using motifs such as birds, butterflies, and insects that reflect the century’s early fascination with the natural sciences. The repertoire of nineteenth century eclecticism is evident in the output of Sèvres from the revival of Gothic and renaissance motifs to the outburst of naturalism. Eleven essays by leading authorities assess this dynamic period.


French Porcelain for English Palaces

French Porcelain for English Palaces

Author: Joanna Gwilt

Publisher: Royal Collection Trust

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a guide to the history of SSvres porcelain as epitomised by seventy of the most important examples in the Royal Collection.


Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection

Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection

Author: Joanna Gwilt

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 9781851777907

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The glittering and colourful opulent wares of the renowned eighteenth-century French royal Sèvres manufactory are prominently displayed in palaces and art galleries throughout the world. By contrast, the comparative delicacy and simplicity of the beautiful wares of the Vincennes porcelain works, out of which the Sèvres factory evolved, remain relatively unkown, even to porcelain experts. This book is based on the Belvedere Collection of Vincennes and early Sèvres porcelain, started 40 years ago with the modest purchase of an early Vincennes cup and saucer, but which has since grown to be one of the world's most comprehensive study collections for the rare early pieces of these two factories.-- from the dust jacket.


The Louis XVI Service

The Louis XVI Service

Author: Geoffrey De Bellaigue

Publisher:

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 9780521266376

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This volume is devoted exclusively to the Louis XVI service and the art and artists who created it.


Shapely Bodies

Shapely Bodies

Author: Christine A. Jones

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2013-05-16

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1644530740

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Shapely Bodies: The Image of Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century France constructs the first cultural history of porcelain making in France. It takes its title from two types of “bodies” treated in this study: the craft of porcelain making shaped clods of earth into a clay body to produce high-end commodities and the French elite shaped human bodies into social subjects with the help of makeup, stylish patterns, and accessories. These practices crossed paths in the work of artisans, whose luxury objects reflected and also influenced the curves of fashion in the eighteenth century. French artisans began trials to reproduce fine Chinese porcelain in the 1660s. The challenge proved impossible until they found an essential ingredient, kaolin, in French soil in the 1760s. Shapely Bodies differs from other studies of French porcelain in that it does not begin in the 1760s at the Sèvres manufactory when it became technically possible to produce fine porcelain in France, but instead ends there. Without the secret of Chinese porcelain, artisans in France turned to radical forms of experimentation. Over the first half of the eighteenth century, they invented artificial alternatives to Chinese porcelain, decorated them with French style, and, with equal determination, shaped an identity for their new trade that distanced it from traditional guild-crafts and aligned it with scientific invention. The back story of porcelain making before kaolin provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of artisanal innovation and cultural mythmaking. To write artificial porcelain into a history of “real” porcelain dominated by China, Japan, and Meissen in Saxony, French porcelainiers learned to describe their new commodity in language that tapped into national pride and the mythic power of French savoir faire. Artificial porcelain cut such a fashionable image that by the mid-eighteenth century, Louis XV appropriated it for the glory of the crown. When the monarchy ended, revolutionaries reclaimed French porcelain, the fruit of a century of artisanal labor, for the Republic. Tracking how the porcelain arts were depicted in documents and visual arts during one hundred years of experimentation, Shapely Bodies reveals the politics behind the making of French porcelain’s image. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.