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Volltext: Ceramic art : a report on pottery, porcelain, tiles, terracotta and brick, with a table of marks and monograms ...

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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA. 
Regnault, Ebelman and Salvetat. Chemical Science was 
needed and was freely used to throw light upon the great 
empirical art. Results of great practical value to ceramic 
industry followed. The composition of foreign porcelains, 
of clays and mixtures, was ascertained. The principles of 
the art of combining were established, and the secrets of 
glasses and enamels, and colors, were unlocked and discov- 
ered to the world. We can'scarcely measure the influence 
upon the potter’s art of such an establishment. And in 
judgiug of the quality of productions of private nianufacto- 
ries as compared with its productions, we should remember 
the superior advantages enjoyed by the union of Science with 
the accumulated experience handed down through genera- 
tious, and preserved by royal patronage. 
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Sevres as a School of Art. 
At the London Exhibition of 1851, the jury unanimously 
assigued the first place to the products of the Sevres manu- 
factory, and awarded the Council Medal.* They, however, 
very justly point out the tuet that the light in which these 
products should be regarded is wholly different from that in 
which the productions of eommercial industry should be 
viewed. The Sevres productions are rather tliose of a 
richly-endowed school of design, and in the French exhibi- 
tions they have not been plaeed in competition with the re 
sults of private enterprise. The influence of Sevres as a 
school of design has extended over the whole of Europe, and 
many of the most beautiful objects in porcelain produced 
elsewhefe are imitations, or slight modifications, of the old 
productions of the Sevres school. 
As early as 1698, the porcelain products at Saint Cloud 
were thought to be equal in quality to those of China. The 
manufaeture was continued, in 1708, by the Brothers Dubois, 
under the protection of the Prince de Coude. But they did 
not succeed at Saint Cloud or at Chantilly. They removed 
to Yincennes, but failed again. In 1745, a Company was 
formed, under the royal patronage, with special Privileges for 
thirty years; but, in 1753, this was revoked, and the king 
became interested to the extent of a third, and the establish- 
Reports of the Jury, p. 542.
	        
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