"Cream Pot, Soft Porcelain De Mennecy Eighteenth Time"
Covered cream jug in soft porcelain from Mennecy (Essonne) Grip in the shape of fruit and foliage, side handle, decorations of bouquets of flowers, purple fillets. Mennecy located in Essonne will produce quality soft porcelain in the second half of the 18th century, No hollow mark.. 1748 creation of the soft porcelain factory by François Bardin, then working in Paris, to circumvent the monopoly de Sèvres, the factory benefits from the protection of Louis François Anne de Neuville, Duke of Villeroy. 1766 takeover of the factory by Joseph Julien and Charles Symphorien, Jacques coming from seals whose production they imitate 1773 the factory of Mennecy is transferred to Sceaux.