THE PIECE: A French Sevres-style gilt and polychrome painted porcelain box, from about 1900, with marks on the underside -- an "S" within interlocking "Ls" -- emulating Sevres marks used in 1771. THE ...

Sally Heller's grandmother told her that this antique compote might have been made by famed porcelain maker Sevres. THE PIECE: An antique porcelain compote, possibly manufactured by Sevres in the ...

Foreign Correspondence THE NEW YORK TIMES. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s ...

The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical. Rococo is ...

Take advantage of this new edition of European Days of Art Crafts to uncover the secrets of the Sèvres porcelain factory on April 11, 2026. Every year, the European Days of Crafts and Art (JEMA) offer ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. MARKS: M. Imp. le Sèvres, Imperial ...

In 1607 the future Louis XIII was brought to the French countryside around the town of Versailles for his first hunt, and just like his father, Henri IV, he loved it—so much so that in 1621, after ...

Industrialist Henry Clay Frick worked his way up from a salesclerk in Pittsburgh to a director of J. P. Morgan’s U.S. Steel Corporation, amassing a huge fortune and an ever-growing collection of ...

For the past six years, Romane Sarfati has been busy developing the Sèvres Manufacture and Museum on the outskirts of Paris, which combines the missions of porcelain creation and production with ...