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in 1745; he sought protection away from Paris, with his protector the well-connected duc de Villeroy, combining his porcelain manufacture with the already established faience industry at the château de Villeroy and Mennecy. None of these early "rue de Charennes" porcelains made in 1734–1748 have
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Management of the factory was assumed by Barbin's son, Jean-Baptiste, who bought out his father and his brother-in-law; after the younger Barbin's death shortly after his father, 14 September 1765, the lease was bought from his widow by partners of the porcelain manufactory at
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under Villeroy's protection when the parish registers commence in 1737. Barbin was identified in an action at law of August 1748 as having already spent fourteen years as a maker of porcelain in a house in the rue de Charonne,
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François Barbin was already a member of the duke's household, and a manufacturer of porcelain in December 1737 (Chavagnac and Golier 1906:98).
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and—from 1748—housed in outbuildings ("les petites maisons") in the park of his château de Villeroy, and in the nearby village of
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Died at Mennecy, 27 August 1765, aged 74. Xavier R.M. de Chavagnac and Gaston Antoine de Grollier,
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The arcanist in charge was François Barbin (1691–1765), who was already established as a maker of
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been identified, but a piece of faience at the Musée de Sèvres bears the date 1748 and the mark
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Jacques and Jullien belatedly registered their factory marks in July 1773, both DV and BR for
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PDF: "The Development of Repertoire in Mennecy Porcelain Sculpture, circa 1738-65"
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Louis-François-Anne de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1695–1766)
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and other small manufactures, which were joined in 1745 by
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from the manufactory established under the patronage of
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Cock, soft-paste porcelain, Villeroy-Mennecy, c. 1750
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Villeroy-Mennecy soft-paste porcelain ewer, 1740–1750
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Index


French porcelain

Rouen
Saint-Cloud
Chantilly
Vincennes
Mennecy
Sèvres
Etiolles
Revol
Limoges
Clignancourt
Dihl and Guérhard
Nast
François Xavier d'Entrecolles
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soft-paste porcelain
Louis-François-Anne de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1695–1766)
Mennecy
ĂŽle-de-France
faience
faubourg Saint-Antoine
Meissen porcelain
manufacture of porcelain at Vincennes
Sceaux
Joseph Jullien
Bourg-la-Reine

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