Sèvres - Plate With Polychrome Decor Of Roses And Barbeaux - Third Republic

Plate decorated with roses and polychrome barbels, gilding in relief - 3rd republic
manufacturing mark Cachet S 73 in green for 1873
decoration mark RF decorated in Sèvres 78 for 1878
mark of the painter Paul-Eugène Richard. (installer, gilder, decorator, active in the factory between 1847 and 1881)

Sèvres porcelain comes from one of the most important factories in Europe. Founded in 1740, it remains world famous today. The Sèvres factory was developed thanks to the patronage of Louis XV under the influence of Madame de Pompadour. Originally located in Vincennes and then moved to Sèvres in 1756, it produced so-called soft porcelain and then hard porcelain following the discovery of a Kaolin deposit near Limoges and marketed in 1770. Over the political regimes it is found on all royal, imperial or presidential tables. Sèvres has continuously produced new fashionable models that have been widely admired and imitated.