Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
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The manufacture nationale de Sèvres is a Frit porcelain porcelain tendre factory at Sèvres
Sèvres
Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, making the famous Sèvres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights...

, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Formerly a royal, then an imperial factory, the facility is now run by the Ministry of Culture
Minister of Culture (France)
The Minister of Culture is, in the Government of France, the cabinet member in charge of national museums and monuments; promoting and protecting the arts in France and abroad; and managing the national archives and regional "maisons de culture"...

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Brief history

In 1740, the Vincennes manufactory was created, with the support of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Pompadour
Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour was a member of the French court, and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.-Biography:...

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In 1756, the factory moved to Sèvres
Sèvres
Sèvres is a commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris.The town is known for its porcelain manufacture, the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, making the famous Sèvres porcelain, as well as being the location of the International Bureau of Weights...

, 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
Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis
Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis , called Duplessis père to distinguish him from his son, Jean-Claude-Thomas Chambellan Duplessis , was a goldsmith, sculptor and ceramics modeller, bronze-founder and decorative designer working in the Rococo manner...

 served as artistic director of the Vincennes porcelain
Vincennes porcelain
The Vincennes porcelain manufactory was established in 1740 in the disused royal Château de Vincennes, in Vincennes, east of Paris, which was from the start the main market for its wares.-History:...

 manufactory and its successor at Sèvres from 1748 to his death in 1774. Louis-Simon Boizot
Louis-Simon Boizot
Louis-Simon Boizot was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for Sèvres porcelain are better-known than his large-scale sculptures.- Biography :...

 was director between 1774 and 1800; Alexandre Brogniart director between 1800 to 1847; and Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault
Henri Victor Regnault was a French chemist and physicist best known for his careful measurements of the thermal properties of gases. He was an early thermodynamicist and was mentor to William Thomson in the late 1840s....

 director beginning in 1854.

Some famous artists who worked for the factory

  • Louise Bourgeois
    Louise Bourgeois
    Louise Joséphine Bourgeois , was a renowned French-American artist and sculptor, best known for her contributions to both modern and contemporary art, and for her spider structures, titled Maman, which resulted in her being nicknamed the Spiderwoman...

  • Pierre Burnaglio
  • Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
    Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse
    Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse was a French sculptor and painter.- Life :Carrier-Belleuse was a student of David d'Angers and briefly at the École des Beaux-Arts...

     (artistic director)
  • Théophile Fragonard (1806–1876)
  • Hector Guimard
    Hector Guimard
    Hector Guimard was an architect, who is now the best-known representative of the French Art Nouveau style of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries....

  • François-Xavier Lalanne
    François-Xavier Lalanne
    François-Xavier Lalanne was a French sculptor and engraver. He lived and worked in Ury...

  • Guillaume Noël
  • Serge Poliakoff
    Serge Poliakoff
    Serge Poliakoff was a Russian-born French modernist painter belonging to the 'New' Ecole de Paris .- Biography :...

  • Auguste Rodin
    Auguste Rodin
    François-Auguste-René Rodin , known as Auguste Rodin , was a French sculptor. Although Rodin is generally considered the progenitor of modern sculpture, he did not set out to rebel against the past...


See also

  • Musée national de Céramique-Sèvres
  • Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe
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