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Thun 1794 (official name Thun 1794 a.s.) was a German and Czech porcelain manufacturer using the porcelain mark "TK". Originally founded in 1793/1794 as Thun'sche Porcellanfabrik and, after many restructurings, finally closed in 2024 after 230 years, [1] [2] it was the oldest and largest Czech porcelain manufacturer.
On 8 December 1909, doctor Yuliy Geller bought the unfinished building of the porcelain factory. On 21 July 1910, Benjamin Hunt and Karl Shpek got a concession for porcelain production from the beginning of 1912, and on 25 September 1911 the firm was registered under the name of Porzellan fabrik Rudolf Kämpf GmbH, Grünlas.
The site was chosen for the museum because in 1794, the third oldest and second then-still active porcelain factory in the Czech Republic, Thun porcelain factory (closed in 2024), [1] [2] was established here. The interior was restored in 1950–1952. The museum contains around 12,000 exhibits.
New Hall porcelain; Plymouth Porcelain; Rockingham Pottery; Royal Crown Derby, (1750/57–present) Royal Doulton, (1815–2009 acquired by Fiskars) Royal Worcester, (1751–2008 acquired by Portmeirion Pottery) Spode, (1767–2008 acquired by Portmeirion Pottery) Saint James's Factory (or "Girl-in-a-Swing", 1750s) Swansea porcelain; Vauxhall ...
Czech Porcelain – Occupying 21 rooms on the castle's first floor, the collection of Czech porcelain documents the more than 200-year-old history of porcelain manufacturing in Bohemia. The historical showcases and interiors feature the output of porcelain factories in Slavkov, Klášterec nad Ohří, Březová, Kisibl, Chodov, Stará Role ...
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 original owners of the Klášterec nad Ohří porcelain factory, the Princes of Thun und Hohenstein, were in 1945 expelled from Czechoslovakia along with the remaining ethnic German population. Over the years, a number of settlements were attached to Klášterec nad Ohří, most of them only in the second half of the 20th century, some of ...
The largest Czech library specializing in the arts and related fields is an integral part of the museum. It holds 172,000 volumes, including authoritative art encyclopedias, dictionaries of artists, comprehensive works on iconography, topography and heraldry.