The Sèvres Manufacture in France has its roots in the Vincennes porcelain manufactory, whose 1740 founding was based on support from Louis XV. When the factory moved west from Paris to Sèvres, in 1756, the company took the city’s name. Its manufacture of hard-paste porcelain, which became the prime medium for porcelain sculptures until the early–19th century, revolutionized the art of porcelain-making all over Europe. The Bard Graduate Center explores this rich and textured history through nearly 200 objects from the Sèvres Manufacture, most of them never exhibited outside of France. —Hannah Gross