Category:Vincennes Porcelain Manufactory

English: Manufacture de porcelaine de Vincennes started in 1740 in the semi-abandoned royal Château de Vincennes, in Vincennes, east of Paris, after a former carpenter discovered the method of producing white porcelain. After five experimental years, the workshop was granted a royal warrant, giving it the exclusive right to produce "porcelain in the style of Saxony, painted and gilded and depicting human figures". The patronage of King Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de Pompadour, allowed Vincennes to secure the best craftsmen, artists, sculptors and designers, including Jean-Claude Duplessis, director of models, 1748-1774, Jean-Jacques Bachelier, director of decoration, 1751-1793, Etienne-Maurice Falconet, director of sculpture, 1757-1766, and the court painter François Boucher. After the factory had outgrown its facilities, it was transferred in 1756 to specially constructed premises at Sèvres, to the south-west of Paris. In 1759, the king purchased the Sèvres porcelain manufactory, which continues its production to the present day (Gwilt, Joanna. Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection. London, V & A Publishing, 2013).