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Typical "Wedgwood blue" jasperware plate with white sprigged reliefs. Wedgwood pieces (left to right): c. 1930, c. 1950, 1885 Wedgwood is an English fine china, porcelain and luxury accessories manufacturer that was founded on 1 May 1759 [1] by the potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood and was first incorporated in 1895 as Josiah Wedgwood and Sons Ltd. [2]
The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1800 [1] 1770: Rörstrand: Stockholm: Sweden: The company was established in 1726; however, it began to produce porcelain wares only in the 1770s 1771: Limoges porcelain: Limoges: France: Limoges maintains the position it established in the 19th century as the premier manufacturing city of ...
The production of Derby porcelain dates from the second half of the 18th century, although the authorship and the exact start of the production remains today as a matter of conjecture. The oldest remaining pieces in the late 19th century bore only the words "Darby" and "Darbishire" and the years 1751-2-3 as proof of place and year of manufacture.
Frankenthal porcelain group, c. 1760 Frankenthal porcelain marks Pieces from a dinner service of 1782 Platter with a paeony from the French Hannong factory making Strasbourg faience, c. 1765 The Frankenthal Porcelain Factory (German: Porzellanmanufaktur Frankenthal ) was one of the greatest porcelain manufacturers of Germany and operated in ...
Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France. The wares are usually divided into three periods, 1730–1751, 1751–1760, and a gradual decline from 1760 to 1800.
Liverpool porcelain is mostly of the soft-paste porcelain type and was produced between about 1754 and 1804 in various factories in Liverpool. Tin-glazed English delftware had been produced in Liverpool from at least 1710 at numerous potteries, but some then switched to making porcelain. A portion of the output was exported, mainly to North ...
Until the 18th century, porcelain had to be imported into Europe from East Asia and was thus rare on the continent. The first European hard-paste porcelain factory was that making Meissen porcelain from 1710, followed by Vienna porcelain in 1718, the Höchst Porcelain Manufactory [ de ] in 1746, Fürstenberg and Nymphenburg in 1747, Berlin in ...
Zurich ware is a type of porcelain that was made in Zurich, Switzerland. It was made in the Zurich Pottery and Porcelain Factory , which was founded in 1763 by decorator Salomon Gessner . [ 1 ] The factory was based in Kilchberg-Schooren on Lake Zurich and produced a mixture of faience ( tin-glazed pottery ) and faience fine ( lead -glazed ...