Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

About

The Manufacture nationale de Sèvres is the French state's ceramic factory. Founded in Vincennes in 1740 under the reign of Louis XV, the royal manufacture became imperial and then national. It is now one of the institutions comprising the public establishment of the National Manufactures - Sèvres & National Furniture under the Ministry of Culture.

The factory has been located since 1876 on a site on the edge of the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud in Sèvres, Hauts-de-Seine. The site also hosts the National Museum of Ceramics. She is famous for having been the porcelain supplier of the European royal courts and still today of the Presidency of the French Republic, Matignon, the Ministry of Culture and embassies of France abroad. A variety of guest artists produce works of art in porcelain.