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From the middle of the 18th century the Sevres factory was celebrated for the coloured backgrounds on its soft background. Work and experiments aimed at obtaining a "real green background" began at the factory in 1743, but success came only ten years later. The basis of the green background is copper. The main task facing the Sevres chemist Hellot was to obtain a perfect shade of colour on firing and he achieved it in this service. In later years the green colour was no longer of such exceptional purity, which makes the Green Service a unique work of porcelain art. |
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