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Bow porcelain factory

Sources for the early history of the Bow manufactory were collected by Lady Charlotte Guest in memoranda, diaries, and notebooks, including a diary of John Bowcocke, who was employed in the works as a commercial manager and traveller.

Chantilly porcelain

Chantilly porcelain is French soft-paste porcelain produced between 1730 and 1800 by the manufactory of Chantilly in Oise, France.

Dresden Porcelain

Sächsische Porzellanmanufaktur Dresden (Saxon Porcelain Manufactory in Dresden), often known in English simply as Dresden Porcelain, is a porcelain factory in Freital near Dresden, which was founded in 1872 and still keeps alive the long tradition of European porcelain art.

Emaux de Briare

Whilst the manufactory in Briare originally started with earthenware pottery, the factory founded in Paris by Jean-Félix Bapterosses (1813–1885) initially began manufacturing porcelain buttons in 1845.

Frank Carpay

Carpay established his own small commercial pottery in Tegelen, Het Edele Ambacht, a small manufactory of ceramics, glass, furniture, and metalwork.

Frisching Faience Manufactory

The manufactory was founded by Franz Rudolf Frisching and his brothers Gabriel Friedrich (1731–1789) and Karl Albrecht (1734–1801) on the grounds of Franz Rudolf Frisching’s country estate, the Lorraine Gut, outside the Old City of Bern.

German Quarter

By 1672, it had three Lutheran and two Calvinist churches and numerous factories, like Moscow's first Silk Manufactory, owned by A.Paulsen.

Giovanni Grancino

The Grancino manufactory was continued by members of the Testore family.

Manufacture nationale de Sèvres

Jean-Claude Chambellan Duplessis served as artistic director of the Vincennes porcelain manufactory and its successor at Sèvres from 1748 to his death in 1774.

Massimiliano Soldani Benzi

After his death his heirs sold some of his wax models to marchese Carlo Ginori, who had them adapted by his chief modeller, Gaspero Bruschi, and reproduced in porcelain at his Doccia porcelain manufactory near Florence.

Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain

Mennecy-Villeroy porcelain (or Mennecy porcelain) is a French soft-paste porcelain from the manufactory established under the patronage of Louis-François-Anne de Neufville, duc de Villeroy (1695-1766) and — from 1748 — housed in outbuildings ("les petites maisons") in the park of his château de Villeroy, and in the nearby village of Mennecy (Île-de-France).

Moravská gobelínová manufaktura

The Moravská gobelínová manufaktura — MGM, is a tapestry manufactory located in the town of Valašské Meziříčí, in the Zlín Region of the Czech Republic.

Nevers manufactory

The Nevers manufactory (French: "Manufacture de faïence de Nevers") was a French manufacturing centre for faience in the city of Nevers.

Orientalism in early modern France

The Savonnerie manufactory was the most prestigious European manufactory of knotted-pile carpets, enjoying its greatest period circa 1650–1685.

Oschersleben

In the years previous to World War II Oschersleben expanded due to the airplane manufactory (AGO Flugzeugwerke) that was founded there and needed numerous workers.

Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin

Under Frederick the Great’s successor, his nephew Frederick William II, the manufactory became a technologically leading enterprise.

Saint-Clément, Meurthe-et-Moselle

It was there that a sister company of the Luneville Faience manufactory was founded by Jacques Chambrette in 1758.

Sinceny manufactory

The Sinceny manufactory was founded in 1713, when potters from Rouenand before from Nevers* moved there to establish their own venture.

The Sinceny manufactory (sometimes St. Cenis) was a French producer of ceramics, especially faience, located in the city of Sinceny, Picardie, France.

Vincennes porcelain

The Vincennes porcelain manufactory was established in 1740 in the disused royal Château de Vincennes, in Vincennes, east of Paris, which was from the start the main market for its wares.

William Courten

The refugees at first set up a manufactory of French hoods in Abchurch Lane, London, but afterwards removed to Pudding Lane, where they traded in silk and linen.


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