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As porcelain marks go, "Old Paris porcelain" is actually a term referring to the products of any number of porcelain manufacturers in Paris during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of these pieces had no mark at all, since King Louis XV had officially banned and later only restricted procelain production in France so as to protect his business of porcelain at Sevres, a mere 18 miles southwest of Paris.
Therefore, anyone claiming to have an "offical" Old Paris mark on a piece of porcelain would be severely stretching the truth.
For more on the history of Old Paris porcelain, click here.
To see Sevres porcelain markings, go to:
Sevres Marks.
To see a more complete listing of porcelain marking, go to:
Porcelain Marks.
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