ANCIENNE MANUFACTURE ROYALE

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Roseraie The “Age of the Enlightenment” was extremely fond of flowers, as demonstrated by this design produced in the last decade of that period by the Clignancourt Manufactory. Flowers have consistently been the motif of choice of painters and have decorated the crowning jewels of tableware design. The style enjoyed renewed […]

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Marie-Antoinette Queen Marie-Antoinette’s service was delivered to the Versailles palace on the 2nd of January in 1782 by the Royal Sèvres Manufactory. Its gracious “Comte d’Artois” shape, enhanced by its “pearl and cornflower” decoration, is enchanting in its delicate simplicity, its decoration placement seemingly improvised. The cornflower, a simple wild flower,

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Louis XV This service was delivered to Louis XV in 1757, by the Royal Sèvres Manufactory. The King intended it for Fontainebleau, the royal residence of which he was extremely fond. These magnificent pieces were the King’s everyday table settings, as demonstrated by the manufactory’s records. The delicacy of its scalloped

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Le Gobelet du Roi In 1783 bestelde Lodewijk XVI bij de Manufacture Royale de Sèvres een servies voor het Paleis van Versailles, versierd met korenbloemen: Le Gobelet du Roy. Dit servies is bedoeld voor de officieren van Le Goblet, een van de zeven ambten die de koninklijke tafel en de koninklijke

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Jardin du Roy/Oiseaux de buffon Created in 1793 by the Sèvres Manufactory, the Jardin du Roi service was inspired by the illustrations found in « L’Histoire naturelle des oiseaux » (The Natural History of Birds) by Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon (1707 – 1788), a naturalist, mathematician, biologist, cosmologist, and French

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Elysée The Elysée service was produced by the Sèvres Manufactory in 1832, for the personal use of King Louis-Philippe at the Tuileries Palace. From the very start of his reign, Louis-Philippe preferred to entirely replace the table settings of the royal residences rather than make use of pieces inherited from his

Anciene Manufacture Royale – Botanique On May 5, 1829 a man calling himself Mr. Schaumbourg ordered from the Royal Sèvres Manufactory a porcelain set ornate with floral wreaths. Guillaume II of Hesse, the German prince secretly bought himself a service for 60 persons. The original set was the largest set ever made by the Royal

Anciene Manufacture Royale – A La Reine The first prestigious service produced by the Royal Manufactory after it acquired its royal status, the A La Reine service was issued in 1784 and the original pieces can be found today in the collections of the world’s greatest museums. The curves of its “Comte d’Artois” shape are