单词 | vincennes |
释义 | Vincennesn. Used attributively and absol. to designate porcelain produced in Vincennes in the eighteenth cent., before the manufactory was transferred to Sèvres (see Sèvres adj.); also applied to colour characteristic of Vincennes porcelain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > pottery or ceramics > [noun] > porcelain > French porcelain Sèvres1764 Vincennes1766 Chantilly1770 Tournai1873 Mennecy1874 Niderviller1903 1766 in 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. 1874 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 13 Aug. (1911) I. 276 A Vincennes cup all but unique. 1900 F. Litchfield Pottery & Porcelain vii. 104 The pieces having rich grand colours in claret colour or crimson lake, and in rich deep Vincennes blue. 1925 W. W. Worster tr. E. Hannover Pottery & Porcelain III. xiii. 279 In the biscuit figures and groups of Vincennes we find..traces of the growing neo-classical movement. 1949 W. B. Honey European Ceramic Art i. 40 The incomparable Vincennes gilding, with its soft-looking delicately tooled surface. 1960 H. Hayward Connoisseur's Handbk. Antique Collecting 254/1 The earliest Vincennes..includes jardinières, jugs, ice-pails and trays of simple shape. 1978 Times 22 July 8/2 A massive white Vincennes pot-pourri vase. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1766 |
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