FÜRSTENBERG PORCELAIN
The website www.18th-collection.com is a private website of ambitious collectors of Fürstenberg porcelain. With this website, we would like to give you a little more knowledge about this porcelain, so that you can recognise and classify it as Fürstenberg porcelain. Take your time to look at the pictures on this website and compare them with the pieces in your possession.
In addition to the porcelains, all kinds of documents on the Fürstenberg manufactory from the 18th century are also of interest: So-called Preiscourante from this period, for example, were published in the "Journal für Deutschland". Furthermore, we are looking for issues of the Holzmindisches Wochenblatt with information about the manufactory.
If you know of any other documents, pictures, notes, etc., please let us know.
These things can be very helpful for many questions about the early porcelains.
If you are in possession of porcelains that are similar or even identical to the pictures shown here, please use the contact form and send us meaningful pictures with some information about them.
We are very much looking forward to exchanging ideas with you about Fürstenberg porcelain.
The beginnings of the manufactory until about 1755
The date of foundation of the Fürstenberg porcelain manufactory is mentioned in the relevant literature as January 11, 1747. On January 29, 1750, the 1st firing of the still unglazed ware took place in the new kiln. This firing contained 119 pieces, including coffee pots, tea pots, rinsing ladles, large and small koppchen, cups with handles, flower pots, mustard tins, hand candlesticks, pipe bowls, cane knobs with figures, knife bowls with foliage, tobacco tins decorated in the same way, round and oval butter tins, salt cellars, large octagonal salad bowls, oval bouillon and sugar bowls. All these dishes of the first fires were either unpainted or painted blue and colorful. However, according to today's opinion, this first firing is more likely to have produced frit porcelain. It becomes really interesting with a listing from the year 1752 where with different masses different porcelains were produced and fired. These porcelains were drawn separately, among others "2 Teepotte with A", "2 Teepotte SB", "2 Teepotte with B" and "2 Teepotte with B". ," 2 teapots SB" as well as "No. 50 A teacups", "No. 50 B cups", "No. 50 C sugar bowls", "No. 19 A top cups".
