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The porcelain specialists working there were  intent on solving the technical challenges of porcelain production as huge sums were paid by wealthy aristocrats for this  glassy white substance which, up to then, was mostly imported from East Asia or the Meissen factory in what is now  Germany.  During the early 1740s the majority of the Vincennes factory's products were probably experimental as the  porcelain body was still being perfected and different enamel colours invented.  In 1745 however, they secured a royal  'privilège' which granted them the exclusive right to produce porcelain ‘in Meissen style’ in France. As the wording suggests,  the factory's earliest productions were indebted to the prestigious Meissen factory. The factory's repertoire quickly evolved  however, from the emulation of East Asian or Meissen examples to incorporate the latest styles used in French gilt-bronze,  woodcarving and decorative painting.  The financial support and patronage of King Louis XV and his mistress, Madame de  Pompadour, enabled Vincennes to secure the best technicians, artists, sculptors and designers. Jean-Claude Duplessis  (director of models, 1748-74), Jean-Jacques Bachelier (director of decoration, 1751-93), Etienne-Maurice Falconet (director  of sculpture, 1757-66), and the court painter François Boucher, all played a central role in the development of this entirely  new French art form. By 1756 the factory had outgrown its workshops in the old château and it transferred to specially  constructed premises at Sèvres (south-west of Paris). In 1759 the king purchased the factory outright and remarkably the  Sèvres porcelain manufactory continues in production to the present day.\n\nThis sugar basin and cover with its monochrome green decoration is copying the fashion of the Meissen factory of the late 1740s.  Joanna Gwilt has matched similar landscape subjects on Vincennes porcelain to etchings after the seventeenth century Dutch artist Anthonie Waterloo (1601-90).\n\nGwilt, Joanna.  Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection.  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