Meissen, Louis XV style painted metal chandelier adorned with porcelain flowers, circa 1900

Meissen or Vincennes Manufactures, in the style of.

 Chandelier with six lights in green painted metal structure with foliage decoration and adorned with colored porcelain flowers, small little roses. Each flower is white and slightly enameled on the petals border by one vivid color: blue, red, green, purple, yellow etc.
New and functional electrical system.
Work realized circa 1900.

Porcelain flowers are a specialty of the Royale Saxony Manufacture, also called Meissen Manufacture (name of the city were de manufactory is settled) created in 1709 by Frédéric Böttger. This creation and technical skills about Saxony porcelain arrived in France thanks to August III, King of Poland and Saxony Elector whom daughter Marie-Josèphe married Louis XV’s only son.   Vincennes Manufacture (former name of Sèvres Manufacture before 1756) was highly supported by the French King Louis XV to compete directly Meissen Manufacture.
Vincennes copies and is inspired by Meissen style and models: a special section is created in 1741, the “Fleurisserie” where 20 young ladies were dedicated to porcelain flowers creation, all of them in a very realistic way. Vincennes catches up quickly and became, according some important people such as the Duke of Luynes, more skilled than Meissen in the porcelain flowers creation.
The excellence of the flowers production can be seen in the flower bouquet of the future Queen (photo), created by the Vincennes Manufacture in 1748 and offered by Marie-Josèphe to her father August III.
As in this bouquet, porcelain flowers were used by the famous marchands-merciers of the 18^th century whom mounted them on metal or bronze structures to create wall sconces, chandelier or other objects. This style was very liked by Louis XV and Mrs de Pompadour and still is an important mark of the Louis XV reign and the increasing taste for porcelains through the 18^th century.

Sources (French) :
Luynes, Duc de, Mémoires sur la cour de Louis XV, 15 février 1749, Paris, Firmin Didot, 1862, t. IX, p. 329.

Weber, Julia, La porcelaine au service de la diplomatie, Les échanges entre Dresde et Versailles, Revue de la Société des Amis du Musée National de Céramique, n°16, 2007, pp.51-61