A book of Porcelain, Fine Examples in the Victoria & Albert Museum
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SEVRES 61 the close of its most glorious epoch. The artistic level reached in the last years of Louis XV. was never again attained until recent times ; the success of the factory was the outcome of the peculiar excellence of the Sevres soft paste for the display of gilding and painting in enamel colours, and the abandonment of this class of body was inevitably followed by an artistic decline. At quite an early stage of the factory's career experiments were made with a view to disco...vering in France the materials for true hard porcelain like that of China and Germany. The success of those researches in 1765 was the prelude to the complete adoption of the new material, when the works were rescued by Napoleon from the state of adversity into which they had sunk in the revolutionary period. For some years before the fall of Louis XVI. both soft and hard paste were made concurrently ; an early example of the latter is a cup and saucer in the Jones Collection, painted with the shield of France supported by an eagle and a dolphin, made to commemorate the birth of the ill-fated Dauphin in 1781.
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SEVRES 61 the close of its most glorious epoch. The artistic level reached in the last years of Louis XV. was never again attained until recent times ; the success of the factory was the outcome of the peculiar excellence of the Sevres soft paste for the display of gilding and painting in enamel colours, and the abandonment of this class of body was inevitably followed by an artistic decline. At quite an early stage of the factory's career experiments were made with a view to disco...vering in France the materials for true hard porcelain like that of China and Germany. The success of those researches in 1765 was the prelude to the complete adoption of the new material, when the works were rescued by Napoleon from the state of adversity into which they had sunk in the revolutionary period. For some years before the fall of Louis XVI. both soft and hard paste were made concurrently ; an early example of the latter is a cup and saucer in the Jones Collection, painted with the shield of France supported by an eagle and a dolphin, made to commemorate the birth of the ill-fated Dauphin in 1781.
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