IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. COLLECTOR/ DONOR: Alfred Duane Pell.

Japanese studio Nendo has designed a table from ceramic lotus leaves and a series of ornamental flowers made from cup handles for Parisian porcelain company Sèvres. Created for 275 year-old porcelain ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. MARKS: M. Imp. le Sèvres, Imperial ...

In 1607 the future Louis XIII was brought to the French countryside around the town of Versailles for his first hunt, and just like his father, Henri IV, he loved it—so much so that in 1621, after ...

For the past six years, Romane Sarfati has been busy developing the Sèvres Manufacture and Museum on the outskirts of Paris, which combines the missions of porcelain creation and production with ...

THE PIECE: A French Sevres-style gilt and polychrome painted porcelain box, from about 1900, with marks on the underside -- an "S" within interlocking "Ls" -- emulating Sevres marks used in 1771. THE ...

Industrialist Henry Clay Frick worked his way up from a salesclerk in Pittsburgh to a director of J. P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Corporation, amassing a huge fortune and an ever-growing collection of ...

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What came to be known as Sevres porcelain was founded in 1740 at the Royal Chateau of Vincennes in France. Its purpose was to manufacture porcelain of the highest quality. The earliest pieces were ...

Romane Sarfati, CEO of the French National Manufacture of Sèvres and the National Museums of Sèvres and Limoges, discusses the bright future of ceramics and porcelain. Pierre Soulages, Vase, 2000-2008 ...