Porcelain manufacturing companies in Europe
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Porcelain manufacturing companies are firms which manufacture porcelain.
European porcelain manufacturers before the 18th century
editThe 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
editThe 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 | Manufacture de Vincennes | 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 |
19th-century European porcelain manufacturing companies
editThe 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.