Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . Duke of Villeroy, a frit porcelain fac-tory was established at Mennecy about 1735. The paste is of an ivoryor amber colour with a heavy waxy glaze, quite different in appear-ance from the wares of other factories, though approaching in tintmost nearly to St. Cloud porcelain. The glaze, particularly where ithas accumulated in crevices, frequently has a distinct greenish porcelain of China was at one period extensively imitated here,while the Sevres styles were also copied to a considerable extent. Poly-chrome decorati
Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . Duke of Villeroy, a frit porcelain fac-tory was established at Mennecy about 1735. The paste is of an ivoryor amber colour with a heavy waxy glaze, quite different in appear-ance from the wares of other factories, though approaching in tintmost nearly to St. Cloud porcelain. The glaze, particularly where ithas accumulated in crevices, frequently has a distinct greenish porcelain of China was at one period extensively imitated here,while the Sevres styles were also copied to a considerable extent. Poly-chrome decorations were employed, but in place of gilding, blue, yellowand rose were often used for narrow bands and outlines of the articles produced were vases, flower pots, figures, groups andvarious pieces of table services. In the Bloomfield Moore collectionof the Museum is a group of silver-mounted snuff-boxes of Mennecysoft paste. In some of these the heavy glaze is of a pale, but pronouncedgreen colour. We show here three snuff-boxes of this manufacture,. Noa. 99-979, 82-10G3, 99-1026. 5, 6, 7. Frit Paste Snuff Boxes (3 inches in length).Polychrome , France, Moore Collection.
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