Crockery & glass journal . y,Counsellor of State, who for a long time had interestedhimself in ceramic riches and particularly in the com-position of porcelain, received a proposal from twoworkmen, the brothers (lilies and Robert Dubois, whohad left the Chantilly factory, offering to make knownto him the secrets of that factory. I [aving accepted facture then began to be organi 1 d in a regular manna Moiis. de Fulv) .1, q 1 dm cce, ding yea\ variou processes for the application ol gold to porcelain, paiticularly lor the composition oi colors which permitted him to consider the transfor ion of
Crockery & glass journal . y,Counsellor of State, who for a long time had interestedhimself in ceramic riches and particularly in the com-position of porcelain, received a proposal from twoworkmen, the brothers (lilies and Robert Dubois, whohad left the Chantilly factory, offering to make knownto him the secrets of that factory. I [aving accepted facture then began to be organi 1 d in a regular manna Moiis. de Fulv) .1, q 1 dm cce, ding yea\ variou processes for the application ol gold to porcelain, paiticularly lor the composition oi colors which permitted him to consider the transfor ion of the \ im enn< workshop into an industrial concern. Under the namioi C harles Adam a company was formed in 1715 towhich the King accorded for a term of twenty years theexclusive right of manufacturing porcelain faconSaxc. Protected by Mons. de Machault, who had suc-ceeded Orry de Vignori as Comptroller of Finance, andby Mme. de Pompadour, the factory, under the manage-ment of Mons. de Fulvy and his agent Boileau, quickly. Dorflinger & Sons, 36 Murray St. their offer, he obtained, thanks to his brother, Orry deVignori, Comptroller General of Finance, permission toaccommodate the brothers Dubois in the dungeon ofY incennes in order to carry out their experiments in fullsecurity, and he advanced them the money necessary fortheir installation. For three years the brothers Dubois lived on the sub-sidies of Mons. de Fulvy, but without succeeding inmanufacturing the porcelain of which they said they pos-sessed the secret. Mons. de Fulvy finally dischargedthem, and, discouraged, he probably would have aban-doned the affair if one. of their assistants, who had comefrom Chantilly, had not confessed to him that he hadcopied the formula and proposed in turn to conduct ex-periments. These experiments succeeded and the manu- acquired a great reputation and produced some remark-able pieces of work. Despite this success, however, itsfinancial situation remained critical for some time, andMon
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