Sèvres - Soft Porcelain Liquor Bucket - Eighteenth Century

Liquor bucket with polychrome decoration of detached bouquets blue fillets and gold staples, soft Sèvres porcelain, Mark in blue with two intertwined Ls, marks of the painter Denis Levé active at the Royal Manufacture of Sèvres between 1754 and 1793 then 1795 and 1805

Porcelain de Sèvres 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 then moved to Sèvres in 1756, it produced so-called soft porcelain then hard porcelain following the discovery of a Kaolin deposit near Limoges and marketed from 1770. Over the political regimes it is found on all royal, imperial or presidential tables. Sèvres continually produced fashionable new designs which were widely admired and imitated.