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With the centralization of the East German economy in 1962, Könitz became state property. It was integrated into a private company, VEB Konitz-Kahla. [6] When the Iron Curtain fell in 1989 [7] Könitz had a chance to re-establish itself. Under new direction and under the original Könitz brand name, the production of household porcelain goods ...
Weimar Porzellanmanufaktur, or Weimar Porzellan (English: Weimar porcelain) is a German company that has been manufacturing porcelain in Weimar since 1790. [1]Part of the KÖNITZ Group family are next to WEIMAR PORZELLAN, the art of porcelain making for the 21 st century of which is living up to meet the most premium standards, amongst others, the brands WAECHTERSBACH with its colourful ...
Year Description Site / location Country Remark; 1710: Meissen porcelain: Meissen: Germany: Saxony: 1718: Vienna porcelain: Vienna: Austria: This first phase called the "Du Pacquier factory"; from 1744 owned by the emperors
Transitional porcelain is Jingdezhen porcelain, manufactured at China's principle ceramic production area, in the years during and after the transition from Ming to Qing. As with several previous changes of dynasty in China, this was a protracted and painful period of civil war.
The most famous of these is the Swan Service (Schwanenservice) made in 1737–1743, for the manufactory's director, Count Heinrich von Brühl; [22] [23] It eventually numbered more than a thousand pieces. At the end of World War II, the pieces of the Swan Service were scattered amongst collectors and museums.
The Allach maker's mark incorporated stylized SS runes.. Allach porcelain (pronounced 'alak') a.k.a. Porzellan Manufaktur Allach was produced in Germany between 1935 and 1945. . After its first year of operation, the enterprise was run by the SS with forced labor provided by the Dachau concentration ca
The Dresden Porcelain Collection (German: Porzellansammlung) is part of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen (State Art Collections) of Dresden, Germany. It is located in the Zwinger Palace . History
The factory had its origins in an official request made 8 September 1760 by the porcelain maker Georg Heinrich Macheleid (1723 -1801). Macheleid had long worked in the glass manufactory at Glücksthal and had gained the arcana of porcelain-making by his own researches, apparently independent of Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus and Johann Friedrich Böttger, the ceramists at Meissen.