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Dihl and Guérhard porcelain (various variant names) was made by the Duc d'Angoulême's porcelain factory, [1] a hard-paste porcelain factory in Paris, active from February 25, 1781, until 1828. It was founded by Christophe Dihl (1752-1830) and Antoine Guérhard (d.1793), together with Louise-Françoise-Madeleine Croizé (1751-1831), then ...
France finally discovered the Chinese technique of hard-paste porcelain through the efforts of the Jesuit Father François Xavier d'Entrecolles between 1712 and 1722. [11] The letters sent to Father Orry in Paris were first published by Jean-Baptiste Du Halde in 1735, with English editions appearing in 1736 or 1738. [12]
On 1 May 2012, the Musée national de la porcelaine Adrien-Dubouché was also made part of this public organisation, whose name was changed to Cité de la céramique – Sèvres et Limoges. [ 13 ] Since becoming a public organisation, its mission, in accordance with its origins in 1740, is to produce ceramic works of art using artisanal ...
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 ...
Saint-Cloud faience plate, 1700–1710 Saint Cloud soft porcelain vase, with blue designs under glaze, 1695–1700. Saint-Cloud porcelain was a type of soft-paste porcelain produced in the French town of Saint-Cloud from the late 17th to the mid 18th century.
The Gobelins Manufactory (French: Manufacture des Gobelins) is a historic tapestry factory in Paris, France. It is located at 42 avenue des Gobelins, near Les Gobelins métro station in the 13th arrondissement of Paris. It was originally established on the site as a medieval dyeing business by the family Gobelin.
René Lasserre created renowned dishes like the orange-flavoured duck of Challans, the André-Malraux pigeon, [3] truffle and foie gras macaroni, [4] and the Élysées-Lasserre timbale. Between 2001 and 2010, Lasserre' s cuisine was led by Jean-Louis Nomicos , the former chef of La Grande Cascade trained by Alain Ducasse .
Duralex is a French tempered glass tableware and kitchenware manufacturer located in La Chapelle-Saint-Mesmin in Loiret, France. [3] Using a technique developed in the 1930s by Saint-Gobain , moulded glass is heated to 600 degrees Celsius then cooled very quickly, giving it twice the impact resistance of normal glass.