European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Artist carefully paints landscape on dinner plate for France s Elysee Palace. Fit for a King and royally priced the Story of Sevres Force by Morton p. Gudebrod is Paris bureaus a photos by Ted Rohde porcelain the most aristocratic an esteemed of All ceramics derives its name from the italian porcelan or Little pig probably because its smooth texture and White translucence reminded some medieval and hungry Duke of a Piglet s hide. Webster defines porcelain As a Fine White translucent hard earthenware with a transparent Glaze  chinese made porcelain that fitted these specifications in almost prehistoric times. The Western world did t figure out How to do it until Early in the 18th Cen Tury. But since then european potteries have produced work that has made their names resound with All the authority of the ancient Oriental dynasties Rosenthal Delft Worcester. Meissen Staffordshire Limoges and Sevres to list a  second oldest of these in the manufacture of hard porcelain is Sevres audit is the Only one that is a National rather than a commercial  National manufactory of Sevres was established in its present location in 1756by Louis Xiv. The two Story White buildings set in a Green Park contrast sharply wit the Industrial ugliness of the big Renault motor works just across the River  in so much French history the Story of Sevres involves a Beautiful woman. Shews the Marquise de Pompadour Nee an Nette Poisson. As the King write favo rite she influenced him  things too Many according to flir contemporary critics and As a Fine to in