IN 1771, the Faïence manufacture was converted into porcelain manufacture, and the region's first hard-paste porcelain began to be made.
In 1774, this initial factory was placed under the protection of the Count d'Artois. It then became a subsidiary of the royal factory in Sèvres in 1784.
In the wake of the French Revolution only private concerns continued in Limoges.
In the early nineteenth century the factories began making the most perfectly white porcelain ever seen, proving the superiority of Limoges kaolin.
By the 1830s there were as many as thirty or so porcelain factories at Limoges.
