The Frisching Faience Manufactory was a

manufactory A factory, manufacturing plant or a production plant is an industrial facility, often a complex consisting of several buildings filled with machinery, where workers manufacture items or operate machines which process each item into another. T ...

that produced high class

faience Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an oxide of tin to the slip of a lead glaze, was a major a ...

manufactures between 1760 and 1776 in Bern, Switzerland. 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 The Old City (german: Altstadt) is the medieval city center of Bern, Switzerland. Built on a narrow hill bordered on three sides by the river Aare, its compact layout has remained essentially unchanged since its construction during the twelfth ...

. The manufactory specialised in faience stoves. Because of

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the manufactory could not sell one faience stove in the city of Bern. However, the faience stoves of the Frisching Faience Manufactory were very popular with the

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Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

and the French-speaking part of Switzerland.

Locations with faience stoves made by the Frisching Faience Manufactory

* Historical Museum of Bern * Schloss Schadau in

Thun , neighboring_municipalities= Amsoldingen, Heiligenschwendi, Heimberg, Hilterfingen, Homberg, Schwendibach, Spiez, Steffisburg, Thierachern, Uetendorf, Zwieselberg , twintown = , website = www.thun.ch Thun (french: Thou ...

*Schloss Hünigen in

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* The Blue and The White House in

* Le Palais du Peyrou in Neuchâtel

Literature

* Walter A. Staehelin: ''Keramische Forschungen aus bernischen Archiven.'' In: Keramikfreunde der Schweiz: ''Mitteilungsblatt.'' Nr. 81 (1970), S. 3–34. * Robert L. Wyss: ''Kachelöfen'', in: ''Bern und die bildenden Künste'', in: Illustrierte Berner Enzyklopädie, Bd. IV. Kunst und Kultur im Kanton Bern, Bern 1987, S. 107-109. * Historisches Museum Bern: ''Geschirr für Stadt und Land – Berner Töpferei seit dem 16. Jahrhundert'', Bern, 2007, {{ISBN, 978-3-9523573-8-5 (BHM). Fireplaces Heaters Companies based in Bern Manufacturing companies of Switzerland Ceramics manufacturers