| There have been no details of the
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| | made, are the rarest. The most common
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| historical records of the porcelain
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| | mark is "St. C T" in blue or incised. The
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| development in Austria. Their
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| | factory closed in 1766.
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| manufactories were established with the
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| | Chantilly
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| help of people who ran away from Dresden.
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| | A soft-paste factory was founded at
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| But the factories faced with continual
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| | Chantilly in 1725 and made wares covered
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| difficulties, it could not continue for
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| | in an attractive glaze containing tin,
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| long and many of the manufacturing units
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| | which gave it a smooth, white, and
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| were closed down. The French claimed that
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| | distinctive appearance. Tableware's,
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| the soft-paste was at Rouen as early as
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| | vases and other useful pieces were made,
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| 1673 but that has not been the accepted
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| | and neatly decorated in brilliant colors
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| one by the majority.
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| | that rely on the beautiful white surface
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| Vienna
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| | for their full effect. Later wares were
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| In 1719, with the help of a runaway from
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| | lead-glazed and of a creamy colour, and
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| Dresden, a factory was started under the
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| | one of the last patterns introduced was
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| manager ship of Claud du Pacquier. It
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| | widely copied; a small spray of
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| made fine hard-paste porcelain resembling
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| | cornflowers known as the "Chantilly
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| Dresden in paste more than in design or
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| | sprig'. After being owned for a few years
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| coloring. Du Pacquier's factory faced
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| | by an Englishman named Potter the factory
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| continual difficulties; ware was costly
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| | closed in 1800. The mark is a curved
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| to produce and much of it too dear to
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| | hunting-horn in red or blue.
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| find many purchasers. It is rare today.
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| | Mennecy
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| In 1744 the factory was bought by the
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| | The factory best known by the name of
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| Austrian State and successful efforts
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| | Mennecy was started in 1734 in Paris,
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| were made to popularize its products.
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| | fourteen years later moved outside the
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| This porcelain, known from its mark of a
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| | capital to Mennecy, and in 1773 moved
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| shield in blue, finally evolved an
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| | finally to Bourg-la-Reine. The early
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| individual style of heavily gilded pieces
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| | wares are usually of a milky-white
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| painted carefully in the manner of
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| | colour, with a 'wet-looking' glaze and a
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| miniatures. These were first made towards
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| | slightly undulating surface; in very rare
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| the end of the eighteenth century, but
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| | instances a tin-glaze, in imitation of
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| were copied again and again until the
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| | that used at Chantilly, is found. All
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| factory closed in 1864. Some of the
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| | types of wares, including a number of
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| modern and very garish imitations of this
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| | figures and groups, were painted in
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| type of Vienna porcelain bears the
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| | colors and many show a particularly
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| printed 'signature' of the artist; often
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| | striking use of pink and bright blue. The
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| that of the English painter, Angelica
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| | mark comprises the letters 'D V', incised
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| Kauffmann.
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| | or in blue.
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| France
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| | France had a rich history of porcelain
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| France Saint Cloud
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| | wares. The earliest accepted pieces are
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| Soft-paste porcelain is said to have been
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| | those made at Saint Cloud at the end of
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| made at Rouen as early as 1673, but
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| | the seventeenth century. They are mostly
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| although several specimens have been
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| | of a creamy colour, but occasionally of a
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| brought forward as proof of the statement
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| | bluish white, and all kinds of wares were
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| they are not accepted generally as having
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| | made. Painting was in under-glaze blue
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| been made there. The earliest accepted
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| | and in colors. A soft-paste factory
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| pieces are those made at Saint Cloud at
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| | founded at Chantilly and made wares
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| the end of the seventeenth century. They
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| | covered in an attractive glaze containing
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| are mostly of a creamy colour, but
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| | tin, which gave it a smooth, white, and
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| occasionally of a bluish white, and all
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| | distinctive appearance. And there were
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| kinds of wares were made. Painting was in
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| | many marked wares found in the different
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| under-glaze blue and in colors, and much
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| | part of the country. They all show that
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| was in the popular Oriental manner.
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| | there was a great progress in the earlier
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| Examples of the ware are not commonly
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| | ages.
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| found, and figures, of which few were
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