| The fleur-de-lis, sometimes impressed. | This mark indicated the factory and the name of the director (Trou) from 1730 to 1762. |
The early porcelain made at St.-Cloud is said to have been quite coarse and unsatisfactory. Examples of it are very scarce. That made later was better, but a long way behind what was made afterward at Sèvres.
At Rouen, in France, porcelain appears to have been made, but it never proceeded so far as to be a business.
At Menecy-Villeroy, about 1735, soft paste was made; and later there were various limited efforts at Brancas-Lauraguais, at Arras, at Vincennes, at Boulogne, at Étoilles, at Bourg-la-Reine, at Clignancourt, at Orleans, at Luneville, at Bordeaux, at Valenciennes, at Limoges, at Sarreguemines, at Strasbourg; at Paris, a great number, some of the products of which are still in existence.
We give the marks of some of the most important.
Marks of Clignancourt: