Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe
Porcelain manufacturing companies are firms which manufacture porcelain.
European porcelain manufacturers before the 18th century
[edit]The table below lists European manufacturers of porcelain established before the 18th century. This table may be sorted according to the year of foundation, description and country.
| Year |
Description |
Site / location |
Country |
Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1575 | Medici porcelain | Florence | Italy | Tuscany |
| 1673 | Rouen porcelain | Rouen | France | Normandy |
| 1693 | Saint-Cloud porcelain | Saint-Cloud | France | Ile-de-France |
18th-century European porcelain manufacturing companies
[edit]The table below lists European manufacturers of porcelain established in the 18th century. This table may be sorted according to the year of foundation, description and country.
| 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 |
| 1720 | Vezzi porcelain | Venice | Italy | Until 1727. First of the Venetian factories.[1] |
| 1730 | Chantilly porcelain | Chantilly | France | Ile-de-France |
| 1735 | Doccia porcelain | Sesto Fiorentino | Italy | Tuscany |
| 1740 | Vincennes porcelain | Vincennes | France | Moved to Sèvres in 1756 |
| 1743 | Capodimonte porcelain | Naples | Italy | moved to Madrid in 1760, becoming Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro |
| 1743 | Chelsea Porcelain | London | England | Merged with Derby in 1769 |
| 1744 | Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg | Saint Petersburg | Russia | Formerly Lomonosov Porcelain Factory |
| 1745 | Mennecy porcelain | Mennecy | France | Ile-de-France |
| 1746 | Höchster Porzellanmanufaktur | Höchst (Frankfurt) | Germany | Hesse |
| 1747 | Bow porcelain factory | London | England | active c. 1747–64 and closed in 1776. Rival to Chelsea Porcelain |
| 1747 | Fürstenberg China | Fürstenberg | Germany | Lower Saxony |
| 1747 | Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory | Schloss Nymphenburg | Germany | Bavaria |
| 1750 | Royal Crown Derby | Derby | England | Year of establishment disputed with 1757 |
| 1750 | Real Fábrica de Alcora | Alcora | Spain | Also called Real Fábrica de Loza y Porcelana; founded 1727 but porcelain production only began c. 1750 |
| 1751 | Tournai porcelain | Tournai | Belgium | Hainaut[1] |
| 1751 | Royal Worcester | Worcester | England | Acquired by Portmeirion in 2009 |
| 1754 | Liverpool porcelain | Liverpool | England | Produced in various factories in Liverpool. |
| 1755 | Frankenthal Porcelain Factory | Frankenthal | Germany | |
| 1756 | Manufacture nationale de Sèvres | Sévres | France | It is the continuation of Vincennes porcelain, founded in 1740, which moved to Sèvres in 1756. |
| 1757 | Porzellanmanufaktur Gotha | Gotha | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1757 | Royal Crown Derby | Derby | England | Year of establishment disputed with 1750 |
| 1757 | Lowestoft Porcelain Factory | Lowestoft | England | Suffolk |
| 1758 | Marieberg porcelain | Stockholm | Sweden | [1] |
| 1758 | Ludwigsburg porcelain | Ludwigsburg | Germany | Baden-Württemberg |
| 1758 | 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 Madrid. Popularly called La China. |
| 1760 | Kloster Veilsdorf porcelain factory | Veilsdorf | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1761 | Porzellanmanufaktur Kelsterbach | Kelsterbach | Germany | Hessen |
| 1762 | Volkstedt porcelain | Volkstedt (Rudolstadt) | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1762 | Le Nove porcelain | Nove | Italy | Republic of Venice. Until 1835. |
| 1763 | Royal Porcelain Manufacture Berlin | Berlin | Germany | Abbreviated as KPM |
| 1763 | Niderviller pottery | Niderviller | France | Founded 1735; made porcelain from 1763 to 1827 |
| 1764 | Cozzi porcelain | Venice | Italy | Republic of Venice. Until 1812. |
| 1764 | Wallendorf Porcelain | Lichte (Wallendorf) | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1766 | Gardner Manufacture | Verbilki | Russia | Moscow oblast, Taldomsky District |
| 1766 | Lunéville Faience | Lunéville | France | Founded 1730, made porcelain from 1766 to 1777 |
| 1766 | Villeroy & Boch | Mettlach, Saarland | Germany | Established in Audun-le-Tiche, Lorraine, France; the company was established in 1748, but it began to produce porcelain wares only in 1766 |
| 1768 | Plymouth porcelain | Plymouth, Devon | England | Moved to Bristol 1770–1781, New Hall 1781-1835 |
| 1770 | Spode | Stoke-on-Trent | England | 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 porcelain in France. |
| 1771 | Naples porcelain | Naples | Italy | "Naples Royal Porcelain Manufactory" (Real fabbrica delle porcellane di Napoli). Also called the Real Fabbrica Ferdinandea. Until 1806. |
| 1774 | Loosdrechts porselein | Loosdrecht | Netherlands | Joannes de Mol established the manufactory |
| 1775 | Aynsley China | Longton, Staffordshire | England | Acquired by Belleek Pottery in 1997 |
| 1775 | Royal Copenhagen | Copenhagen | Denmark | The Royal Copenhagen manufactory's operations began in a converted post office in 1775. |
| 1777 | Graf von Henneberg Porcelain, Ilmenau | Ilmenau | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1777 | Hollóháza Porcelain Manufactory | Hollohaza | Hungary | Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County |
| 1783 | Porcelain Manufacture Rauenstein | Rauenstein | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1790 | Weimar Porcelain | (Blankenhain) | Germany | Thuringia |
| 1792 | Haas & Czjzek | Horní Slavkov | Czech Republic | German: Schlaggenwald; defunct as of 2011 |
| 1793 | Mintons | Stoke-on-Trent | England | United Kingdom |
| 1794 | Thun 1794 | Klášterec nad Ohří | Czech Republic | Chomutov District |
| 1794 | Königlich privilegierte Porzellanfabrik | Tettau | Germany | Bavaria |
| 1795 | Coalport porcelain | Coalport | England | Acquired by Wedgwood in 1967 |
19th-century European porcelain manufacturing companies
[edit]The table below lists European manufacturers of porcelain established in the 19th century. This table may be sorted according to the year of foundation, description and country.
| Year |
Description |
Site / location |
Country |
Remark |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19th century | Bolesławiec | Bolesławiec | Poland | Originated in the Middle Ages and developed in the 17–19th centuries |
| 1809 | Porcelain Manufacture Ćmielów | Ćmielów | Poland | Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship |
| 1813 | Nantgarw China Works | Nantgarw | Wales | Produced porcelain between 1813 and 1820. Closed 1920 |
| 1814 | Cambrian Pottery | Swansea | Wales | Established 1764. Produced Swansea porcelain 1814-1822. Closed 1870 |
| 1817 | Real Fábrica de La Moncloa | Madrid | Spain | It was the successor of the Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro |
| 1824 | Vista Alegre | Ílhavo | Portugal | Porcelain and Crystal Factories in Portugal, producing Tableware, Giftware, Home Decor, and Hotelware |
| 1826 | Herend Porcelain Manufactory | Herend | Hungary | Veszprém County |
| 1831 | Porcelain Manufacture Wałbrzych | Wałbrzych | Poland | Wałbrzych Voivodeship |
| 1832 | Dulyovo porcelain works | Likino-Dulyovo | Russia | Moscow Oblast |
| 1853 | Bing & Grøndahl | Denmark | Merged with the Royal Porcelain Factory in 1987 | |
| 1853 | Zsolnay Porcelain Manufacture | Pécs | Hungary | Baranya County |
| 1860 | Zakłady Porcelany Stołowej Karolina | Jaworzyna Śląska | Poland | Wałbrzych Voivodeship |
| 1864 | Český porcelán a.s. | Dubí Teplice District | Czech Republic | Eichwelder Porzellan – und Ofenfabriken Bloch & Co. Böhmen |
| 1872 | Zaklady Porcelitu Stolowego | Pruszków | Poland | Masovian Voivodship |
| 1873 | Fabryka Faiansu Włocławek | Włocławek | Poland | Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodship |
| 1873 | Arabia porcelain | Toukola (Helsinki) | Finland | Kitchenware and tableware |
| 1882 | Porcelain manufactore G.Benedikt | Karlovy Vary | Czech Republic | |
| 1884 | Belleek | Belleek County Fermanagh | Northern Ireland | Ulster |
| 1885 | Porsgrunds Porselænsfabrik | Porsgrunn | Norway | Telemark county |
| 1897 | Porcelain Manufacture Chodzież | Chodzież | Poland | Greater Poland Voivodship |