773-1806 The manufacture of Mennecy-Villeroy porcelainappears to have been established by Fran9oisBarbin, in the first place, in the year 1734, in therue Charronne, Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris,where he also probably carried on the manufactureof faience at the same time. In 1748, owing to… … 5 > o ti <5 S <1 MENNECY-VILLEROY established himself at Mennecy, where he remaineduntil his death on the 27th of August, 1765, afterhaving named his son, Jean-Baptiste, as co-directorin 1751, and made him partner in 1753. Thelatter, who survived his father only a little over afortnight,…
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