Getty Museum Presents Porcelain from Versailles: Vases for a King & Queen
Jeffrey Weaver | Getty | 7th February 2023
On matters of refined taste, eighteenth century Europe looked to France. At the top of any ‘must-have’ list was Sèvres porcelain. The Sèvres factory – originally owned by Louis XVI – had developed hard paste porcelain that fired white and enabled a variety of decorated surfaces. The vases owned by Louis and Marie Antionette, that somehow survived the Revolution, are regarded as among the finest achievements in porcelain. They are, says one writer “extremely important and extremely fabulous”.