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  2. Limoges porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Limoges porcelain is hard-paste porcelain produced by factories in and around the city of Limoges, France, beginning in the late 18th century, by any manufacturer.By about 1830, Limoges, which was close to the areas where suitable clay was found, had replaced Paris as the main centre for private porcelain factories, although the state-owned Sèvres porcelain near Paris remained dominant at the ...

  3. Manufacture nationale de Sèvres - Wikipedia

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    The kaolin was brought, traditionally, from Saint-Yrieix near Limoges. Nowadays there are many sources. The glaze, applied as enamel over the kaolin paste after firing is made mainly of Marcognac pegmatite, mixed with feldspath and quart. [10] The blue of Sèvres is a characteristic colour of the manufactory.

  4. List of porcelain manufacturers - Wikipedia

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    Aynsley China, (1775–present) Belleek, (1884–present) Bow porcelain factory, (1747–1776) Caughley porcelain; Chelsea porcelain factory, (c. 1745, merged with Derby in 1770) Churchill China; Coalport porcelain; Davenport; Denby Pottery Company; Goss crested china; Liverpool porcelain; Longton Hall porcelain; Lowestoft Porcelain Factory

  5. Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe - Wikipedia

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    Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of porcelain in France. 1771: Naples porcelain: Naples: Italy "Naples Royal Porcelain Manufactory" (Real fabbrica delle porcellane di Napoli). Also called the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea. Until 1806. 1774 ...

  6. Haviland & Co. - Wikipedia

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    Porcelain hot chocolate set by Théodore Haviland, Limoges, circa 1895–1905. Haviland & Co. is a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain in France, begun in the 1840s by the American Haviland family, importers of porcelain to the US, which has always been the main market.

  7. Porcelain - Wikipedia

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    Hard-paste porcelain was invented in China, and it was also used in Japanese porcelain.Most of the finest quality porcelain wares are made of this material. The earliest European porcelains were produced at the Meissen factory in the early 18th century; they were formed from a paste composed of kaolin and alabaster and fired at temperatures up to 1,400 °C (2,552 °F) in a wood-fired kiln ...

  8. Musée national Adrien-Dubouché - Wikipedia

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    The Musée National Adrien Dubouché houses almost 18,000 works in ceramics (pottery, stoneware, earthenware and porcelain) and glass from various periods, from Antiquity to the present day, [1] [6] and from a wide range of civilisations: ceramics from Ancient Greece and Europe, Chinese porcelain, Islamic earthenware, stoneware pieces and European porcelain from the 17th century to the present ...

  9. Vincennes porcelain - Wikipedia

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    In 1756 the Vincennes porcelain factory shifted to new premises at Sèvres, west of Paris, until 1759, when, with the enterprise threatening to go bankrupt, the king bought it outright, initiating the career of world-famous Sèvres porcelain, which was a direct outgrowth of Vincennes.

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