George IV’s Sèvres Porcelain Collection

George IV’s taste for the exotic, rare and extravagant produced what is considered the finest collection of Sèvres porcelain in the world and has made him the single greatest English Royal collector of art and instigator of architectural projects. He was passionately fond of lavish decoration and display and would often use secret pathways to obtain valued pieces. The sumptuous collection of French porcelain, art and clocks formed glamorous accessories to the visual theatricality of his glittering receptions held at Carlton House and later at his transformed Buckingham Palace.

Sylvia Sagona completed her post graduate studies of a Maitrise ès Lettres at the University of Aix en Provence where she lived and lectured at the university of Aix-Marseilles before taking up a lectureship in the Department of French and Italian studies at the University of Melbourne.