Ottweiler porcelain is a type of
hard-paste porcelain
Hard-paste porcelain, sometimes "true porcelain", is a ceramic material that was originally made from a compound of the feldspathic rock petuntse and kaolin fired at very high temperature, usually around 1400 °C. It was first made in China ...
which used to be made in
Ottweiler
Ottweiler () is a municipality, former seat of the district of Neunkirchen, in Saarland, Germany. It is situated on the river Blies
The Blies () is a right tributary of the Saar in southwestern Germany (Saarland) and northeastern France (Mosel ...
,
Germany
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. Today, only few pieces have survived.
History
Étienne-Dominique Pellevé, of
Rouen,
France
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, started producing this porcelain in Ottweiler in 1763. The factory was under patronage of
Wilhelm Heinrich of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1735-1768), and part of his garden.
Remaining porcelain
The largest collection of remaining Ottweiler porcelain can today be seen at the ''Witwenpalais'' in Ottweiler.
References
* Elisabeth Kessler-Slotta, ''Ottweiler Porzellan'' () in
German
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German porcelain
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