European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Potter shapes a spinning plate touching up filigree design. � m rated with miniatures by great painters like Fragonard and Isabel. In the years that followed his exile the styles of Sevres changed in reflection of the political Cli mate and National tastes but the Quality the painstaking workmanship have never since altered Sevres has always been the Rich Man s porcelain and continues to be. To understand Why you have Only tomake a guided tour of the workshops which you can do on the first and third thursday afternoons of each month. You la find no production lines no whirring machinery no rows on rows of workers Bent Over tables. Every piece of Sevres China is quit literally hand made although As Many As a dozen pairs of skilled hands May have gone into the shaping and decoration of a single dinner plate or Saucer. On one Side of a Long High windowed room potters Ait Over their wheels shaping the spinning forms to their required Grace Ful profile. Little Geyser of Clay dust Rise from the wheel As the steel tools bite int dried but still uncooked porcelain. Across the room other workers Are painstakingly assembling the molde elements of figurines fitting an Arm to a Venus or wings on a Cherub so artfully that the final delicate sculpture will show -., no Trace or the grafting process. Next comes the cooking a process that varies according to the nature and ultimate decoration of the piece according to rules Lett Sci too technical for the Layman but the temperatures involved Are formidable Sevres hard porcelain by the time it reaches the decorators has already under gone 30 hours at e hellish 2�40 degree fahrenheit followed by Days of blow Cool ing. In fact the Only loud noise in the whole factory is the Jet Roar of the Oil burners in the two Story High Brick ovens. The Wing of the factory where Sevre porcelain comes into its glory is More re mindful of a turn of the Century Hospital than a manufactory. In a series of rooms opening off a Long Antiseptic corridor sit the artists who apply the elaborate decoration for which Sevret is famous. There Are Seldom More than two or three in a room and the atmosphere u hushed. On a recent Day an engraver with of jeweler s Glass in has Eye was etching the great Seal of the United states on a Copper plate. The finished design eventually will be transferred in Gold to a table service or dered by a wealthy american hostess who sometimes has some Kennedy in for Din Ner. In an adjoining room a woman mini naturist was painting delicate landscape on dinner plates for a 500-Plece a Raki destined for France s White House Alfil Elysee Palace. In another part of the building Gold de signs real Gold Wen being trans ferry decal Comala fashion on dishes that a Fol Grace the table of the French embassy Warsaw. J v. The stars and stripes by tradition and with Zewall Sevres China contains Gold in it oration Gold that is applied the in a inform and then cooked until it stands at tort the porcelain s Glaze like a glittering Crafty at a window table a girl was  Gold Interior of an after dinner cup using what looked like a phar Pestle covered with Chamois. It will take her about 10 hours to said a Sevres spokesman. To finish the set to finish. The cup this led to the expect Able question what would the cup and Saucer sell of something like 500 a. Franc the answer. That is $100. On the grounds of the Sevre sment is a retail department where you Cut buy the French National porcelain Sec earpiece or in sets or even order do Nett service created to your own taste inf you can afford it if not there is the Ceramic the same building where you can Admire Fine porcelain from an Over world for Only the 50-Centinw 10 Adoll Aton fee and that la � Barbate