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| | Vincennes Vase, Sèvres Soft Paste Porcelain, 1753 CE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25) |
 | | Vincennes Vase, Sèvres Soft Paste Porcelain, 1753 CE While soft paste porcelain had been made earlier in France at both St. Cloud and Chantilly, it was at Sèvres that soft paste porcelain reached its height, and Sèvres would become the most famous manufacturer in Europe. |
 | | This piece was decorated by Antoine Caton, and displays one of Sèvres' distinctive overglaze colors, called 'bleu celeste,' or celestial blue. |
 | | Other colors were 'bleu lapis' (a deep blue-fl), vert (green), noir (fl), and rose (pink). |
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