Ceramics and Glass

Josiah Wedgwood named his canal side Staffordshire works after the potters of Etruria. Here he industrialized fine ceramics, perfe...

The first hard paste porcelain works in Europe, founded after alchemist Johann Friedrich Bottger unlocked the Chinese arcanum unde...

Upstate New York glass maker that blew the first practical bulbs for Edison in 1879, cast the 200 inch mirror blank for the Paloma...

Born at Vincennes and moved to Sevres under royal patronage, the soft paste porcelain of kings became the national manufactory aft...

De Porceleyne Fles, founded in 1653, is the last of the thirty two potteries of golden age Delft. Blue and white delftware has bee...

A glassworks chartered by Louis XV in Lorraine that turned to lead crystal and became the byword for luxury glass. Its chandeliers...

Founded in 1747 under the Bavarian elector and moved to a pavilion at Nymphenburg Palace in Munich in 1761, where it still works. ...