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The manufactory of [[Hard-paste porcelain|hard-paste]] '''Limoges porcelain''' was established by [[Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune|Turgot]] in 1771 and placed under the patronage of the [[Charles X of France|comte d'Artois]], brother of [[Louis XVI of France|Louis XVI]]. [[Limoges]] had been the site of a minor industry producing plain [[faience]] earthenwares since the 1730s, but the first identified French source of [[kaolin]] and a material similar to [[petuntse]], the ingredients used for the production of hard-paste porcelain similar to [[Chinese porcelain]], were discovered at [[Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche]], near Limoges, in an economically distressed area, and began to be quarried in 1768. The manufactory was purchased by the king in 1784, apparently with the idea of producing hard-paste bodies for decoration at [[Sèvres porcelain|Sèvres]], a venture that did not work out.

After the [[French Revolution|Revolution]] a number of private factories were established at Limoges, the chief of which was and remains Haviland. Thus
"Limoges porcelain" is a generic term for porcelain produced in Limoges rather than the production of a specific factory. Limoges maintains the position it established in the nineteenth century as the premier manufacturing city of porcelain in France.

==References==
*M. Ernoud-Gandouet, ''La Céramique en France au XIXe siècle'' (Paris) 1969.
*Mary Frank Gaston, ''The Collector's Encyclopedia of Limoges''.
*[http://www.limogesboutique.com/ Authentic Limoges Porcelain Boxes.]

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