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Vincennes|vɛ̃sɛn|
The name of a château in the town of Vincennes (now a suburb of Paris), used attrib. and absol. to designate porcelain produced there in the eighteenth cent., before the manufactory was transferred to Sèvres (see Sèvres a.); also applied to colour characteristic of Vincennes porcelain.
1766in F. A. Barrett Worcester Porcelain (1953) vi. 29 Great improvements in the Worcester manufactory of china... It is hardly surpassed by the Vincennes, and much cheaper. 1874C. Schreiber Jrnl. 13 Aug. (1911) I. 276 A Vincennes cup all but unique. 1900F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain vii. 104 The pieces having rich grand colours in claret colour or crimson lake, and in rich deep Vincennes blue. 1925W. W. Worster tr. Hannover's Pottery & Porcelain III. xiii. 279 In the biscuit figures and groups of Vincennes we find..traces of the growing neo-classical movement. 1949W. B. Honey European Ceramic Art i. 40 The incomparable Vincennes gilding, with its soft-looking delicately tooled surface. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 254/1 The earliest Vincennes..includes jardinières, jugs, ice-pails and trays of simple shape. 1978Times 22 July 8/2 A massive white Vincennes pot-pourri vase. |