Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille) 1754 Vincennes Manufactory French One of the most influential and renowned porcelain dinner services made during the eighteenth century was the first produced for Louis XV (1710–1774), king of France, by the Vincennes factory in France. Commissioned in 1751 to include both dinner and dessert wares, the service was sufficiently extensive in scale and challenging to produce that it necessitated delivery in three major installments over a three-year period, which began in 1753.[1] Because it was the first service of significant scale prod

Bottle cooler from the Louis XV service (seau à bouteille) 1754 Vincennes Manufactory French One of the most influential and renowned porcelain dinner services made during the eighteenth century was the first produced for Louis XV (1710–1774), king of France, by the Vincennes factory in France. Commissioned in 1751 to include both dinner and dessert wares, the service was sufficiently extensive in scale and challenging to produce that it necessitated delivery in three major installments over a three-year period, which began in 1753.[1] Because it was the first service of significant scale produced at Vincennes, it required the development of many new models, and it was the first to employ the turquoise ground color, known as bleu céleste, that the factory had just developed.[2] The goldsmith Jean-Claude Duplessis (Italian, ca. 1695–1774), known as Duplessis père to distinguish him from his son Jean-Claude- Thomas Duplessis (French, ca. 1730–1783), was the artistic director at Vincennes and thus responsible for the factory’s models. In this capacity, he produced designs for most of the new wares created for the service,[3] many of which remained in production for at least the next twenty-five years.[4] The Louis XV service, as it became known, significantly enhanced the prestige of the young porcelain factory, while at the same time creating a basic template for the dinner services that were subsequently produced at both Vincennes and Sèvres. The quality and importance of the service were recognized immediately; the first installment was displayed at a public exhibition in Paris before its delivery to Versailles.[5]The use of bleu céleste became the primary distinguishing characteristic of the Louis XV service, and the popularity of this color helped to establish the importance of ground colors in creating a factory style that evolved at Vincennes and reached maturity at Sèvres. While the Meissen factory employed various ground colors for vases and tea

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