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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 ...
Ansbach Porcelain: Ansbach: Germany: Bavaria: 1759: Wedgwood: Stoke-on-Trent: England: The manufacture began to produce porcelain only in 1812 [1] 1759: Weesp porselein: Weesp: Netherlands: First Dutch porcelain factory was founded in Weesp, near Amsterdam 1760: Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro: Madrid: Spain: Capodimonte porcelain was moved to ...
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 ...
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.
On 13 August 1948, the Niedersächsisches Ministerium für Wirtschaft und Verkehr [] (' Lower Saxony Ministry of Economics and Transport ') [2] granted the merchant August Heinrich Caspritz, [2] who came from Tolkemit, [2] permission to build and operate a factory for the production of electrical porcelain, stove tiles and tableware on the site of a former anti-aircraft equipment depot.
FAG (Fischers Aktien-Gesellschaft) metal tinThe label was introduced in Britain by the Merchandise Marks Act 1887 (50 & 51 Vict. c. 28), [1] to mark foreign produce more obviously, as foreign manufactures had been falsely marking inferior goods with the marks of renowned British manufacturing companies and importing them into the United Kingdom.
Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus . After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work and brought this type of porcelain to the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and ...
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