Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations : with tables of factory and artists' marks for the use of collectors (1878)
Prime, William Cowper, 1825-1905 · New York : Harper & Brothers · leaf 284
madeto accompany dinner services, and weresuperb ornaments of the table. No collection exists which can be said to illustrate fully, or even fairly,the splendid variety of the work of this factory. It was a happy idea ofBrongniart, in 1805, to found a ceramic museum at Sevres. Louis XVI.presented… … Sevres Plate. (Hoe Coll.) 280 PORCELAIN. Brongniart brought to his aid in the museum Riocreux, who had been aflower-painter in the factory from 1808, and whom an accident had disa-bled from pursuing his work. He was made conservateur of the museum,and so continued till his death, in 1S47. The…
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