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Nestled in the picturesque Saint Cloud park outside Paris, the Sèvres factory is a temple to craftsmanship. Some of Europe’s most beautiful ceramics have been made here since 1740. Today, 120 potters use skills and techniques that have been handed down from generation to generation over three centuries. FRANCE 24 takes you to meet some of these talented men and women.
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Hard job but most beautiful outcomes. Just breathtaking. France the land of stunning beauties. I am not French and do not live there but I visited it many times, I like this country. The language, the nature, the magnificent architectural monuments and………..
Number one best porcelain manufacture in the world this is Sevres. All others is smoke on the corner. France art culture is number in the world.
too bad most of the factories have moved to China, like the rest of the world . i have started to collect French porcelain, and sad, that this art , may become a memory soon .
@Charleston Annie sorry but porcelain factories in China are for Chinese porcelain, luxury French porcelain factories are all in France! you confuse luxury porcelain with low-end porcelain! the low-end Chinese is also in France sold at low prices!
So beautiful
Being able to see some of the pieces from Sèvres was one of the best experiences of my life <3
At 2:27, it looks like she is making a Pot pourri à vaisseau replica!
Does anyone ever check the radiation level of those materials? The quartz is most likely highly radioactive.
Originally stolen from the Germans at Dresden: but the earliest European porcelain is English.
@Valentino Zangobbo No – 3 English pieces from 100 years before Tschirnhaus exist. He visited England & was intellectually light-fingered. Alas, the English didn’t manufacture it.
@Jim Overbeck they tried making porcelain for so long, not surprised if its some alchimist’s experiment or something like that. In Italy they tried too, with some kind of success here and there…
@Valentino Zangobbo Tschirnhaus knew both Spinoza & Leibniz before being largely responsible for Dresden porcelain. I think JF Boettger lifted the formulae from his effects. I gave a lecture in the Brit Museum on Boettger years ago. Meissen & Dresden are well worth a visit.
@Jim Overbeck interesting, thank you.
If you are interested please take a look into “medicean porcelains” of mid XVI century, only a few remains in museums… It was a kind of technical success and an interesting story in itself 🤠😉
@Valentino Zangobbo Correct
It’s very useful
Wow!
I am fortunate to have acquired a reproduction of a Sevres pattern made for Louie XV1 & Marie Antoinette near the end of their reign. It was reproduced by Le Tallec studio’s in Paris, France and sold at Tiffany & Co. The hand painted gold detail of Chinese figures against a black background is stunning.
Oh my!! I bet that is gorgeous!!!
Superb
if she was working on one plate for 3 months, I can’t imagine what an entire service sells for!