This type of rococo found a home both in churches and in palaces. Meissen ware achieved enormous popularity, and soon every major court in continental Europe had its own porcelain factory. T he rococo style began to decline in the 1760s, denounced by critics who condemned it as tasteless, frivolous, and symbolic of a corrupt society. Within 20 years it was supplanted, together with the baroque, by neoclassicism. Michael Kitson, Reader in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, London.
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