Sevres

No. Like many of its ilk, using the word 'utility' on a Porsche is like calling a Sevres teacup 'a mug ', a Balenciaga ball gown 'a dress' or, well, a Cayenne 'a utility vehicle '.

Motoring 2009

It's a cylinder of platinum-iridium about 39mm high, 39mm in diameter, cast by Johnson Matthey in Hatton Garden in 1879, delivered to the International Committee on Weights and Measures in Sevres shortly afterwards, polished and adjusted to be made equal in mass to the mass of the old French kilogram of the archives which dates from the time of the French Revolution.

Royal Society meets to weigh up the shrinking kilogram 2011

Coming full-circle, back to Sachs' original cobbled-together hot-wired artifacts he's best known for, is his new series of beautiful foam core bricolage that imitates the highly coveted 18th c. porcelain collections produced by a factory in Sevres, founded by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV c.

Kisa Lala: Keeping Time With Tom Sachs: An Interview With the Artist Kisa Lala 2011

Coming full-circle, back to Sachs' original cobbled-together hot-wired artifacts he's best known for, is his new series of beautiful foam core bricolage that imitates the highly coveted 18th c. porcelain collections produced by a factory in Sevres, founded by Madame de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV c.

Kisa Lala: Keeping Time With Tom Sachs: An Interview With the Artist Kisa Lala 2011

Note 8: The civilian internment camp was probably at Niort in the Department of Deux-Sevres (although Nantes in Loire-Inferieure was a possibility).

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

Burnside and Forbes were hot to see, from the French side, something of the war, and being almost beside themselves to get into Paris, a permit was granted them by Count Bismarck, and they set out by way of Sevres, Forsyth and I accompanying them as far as the Palace of St. Cloud, which we, proposed to see, though there were strict orders against its being visited generally.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

When you have spent your life dining off the cracked blue plate special, it is very pleasant to momentarily finger the Sevres porcelain.

Times are hard... for philosophers... Ann Althouse 2009

When one thinks of all the magnificent Sevres Porcelain that was part of the French Royal Collection until the idiots of the first French Republic sold off everything for a song.

French Porcelain elena maria vidal 2009

Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., the International Earth Rotation Service at the Paris Observatory and the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sevres, France, all of which measure a second by the interval it takes a cesium atom to vibrate 9,192,631,770 times.

Boing Boing 2007

With its Rockingham, and Sevres, with old Minton and fine Spode, oh so elegant, Buckingham Palace is her most famous abode.

Michael Henry Adams: A Queen for Today! 2009