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1771 In Art
Events from the year 1771 in art. Events * Limoges porcelain manufacture established in France. Works * Cristóbal de Aguilar – ''Manuel de Amat y Junient as Protector of the Monastery of the Nazarene'' * Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin – '' Self-portrait in spectacles'' (pastel) * Louis-Bernard Coclers – ''Interior of a Foundry'' * John Singleton Copley **Daniel Crommelin Verplanck' (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) **''Ezekiel Goldthwait'' and ''Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait (Elizabeth Lewis)'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) * Jacques-Louis David – ''Minerva Fighting Mars'' (''Combat de Mars contre Minerve'') * Anton Graff **''Gotthold Ephraim Lessing'' **''Moses Mendelssohn'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait bust of Diderot *John Hamilton Mortimer – Combined portrait of Dr Daniel Solander, Sir Joseph Banks, Captain James Cook, Dr John Hawkesworth and John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich * Alexander Roslin – '' King Gustav III of Sweden and his Brothers'' * Claude ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limoges Porcelain
Limoges porcelain is hard-paste porcelain produced by factories in and around the city of Limoges, France beginning in the late 18th century, but does not refer to a particular manufacturer. By about 1830, Limoges, which was close to the areas where suitable clay was found, had replaced Paris as the main centre for private porcelain factories, although the state-owned Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Sèvres porcelain near Paris remained dominant at the very top of the market. Limoges has maintained this position to the present day. History Limoges had strong antecedents in the production of decorative objects. The city was the most famous European centre of vitreous enamel production in the 12th century, and Limoges enamel was known as ''Opus de Limogia'' or ''Labor Limogiae''. Limoges had also been the site of a minor industry producing plain faience earthenware since the 1730s. The manufacturing of hard-paste porcelain Hard-paste porcelain, sometimes "true porcelain", is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |