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There, a handful of  porcelain specialists were inspired to start experimenting with porcelain as huge prices were paid by wealthy aristocrats for this glassy white substance which had for the most part had to be imported from East Asia or  from the  Meissen factory in what is now Germany.  It was the Saxon ruler Augustus the Strong who had led the drive in Europe to emulate Chinese porcelains  and his factory was established in about 1710. 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 were slowly invented.  In 1745 however, they  secured a royal <i>privilège</i>  which  granted them the exclusive right to produce porcelain in Meissen style in France.  By the late 1740s their products were already accomplished with a  wide range of enamel colours in use,  followed from 1748 by gilding and ground colours from 1752 onwards. The factory moved to Sèvres to the south-west of Paris in 1756. \r\n\r\nThis exquisite cup and saucer are decorated with the earliest ground colour inspired by Chinese porcelains and called <i>bleu lapis</i>  at the factory.  It was invented and used for the first time around 1750.  They bear the crossed Ls of the royal cipher which was adopted as the factory mark around this time.","physicalDescription":"Saucer, 'Soucoupe', soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue lapis nuage and gold ground and gilt decoration of birds amongst foliage.  Straight sided form.  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