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came to Madrid, along with three shipments containing the necessary equipment and special paste, to establish a factory to produce royal porcelain in Madrid. Gaetano Schepers was in charge of the factory and ten Spanish artists were also associated with the manufacturing. The porcelain's quality was
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The factory concentrated on figurines, especially of classical subjects, but also made tablewares and decorative vessels such as vases and pots. Porcelain rooms were installed at three royal palaces. Initially Gricci's style remained similar to the elegant
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The factory was founded in 1760 on a site in the Buen Retiro park which at that time was the private gardens of a royal palace on the outskirts of Madrid. It was an initiative of
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was again Neoclassical, but with a very different appearance. The walls were almost entirely covered by 234 plaques in the style and technique of
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internationally recognized, and its manufacturing techniques were kept a state secret. Buen Retiro porcelain was one of the products that drove
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Apart from the porcelain rooms, covered above, a fine collection of porcelain from the factory is on display in the
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The year 1803 marked a transition in the factory management from the Italian board of directors to the Spanish-born
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Prior to becoming King of Spain, Charles reigned as King of Naples and Sicily. A similar factory, the
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The Rough Guide to Madrid Collections of the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
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Neoclassical covered vases, between 1784 and 1795, 18 3/4 in. (47.6 cm) high.
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In 1817, the factory was re-established on a new site in Madrid, becoming the
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became dominant, which remained the case throughout the life of the factory.
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Porcelana del Buen Retiro at Centro Virtual Cervantes, Instituto Cervantes
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The occupying French forces were driven out of Madrid in 1812, during the
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Buildings and structures in Spain demolished during the Peninsular War
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in 1760, after its founder there had inherited the Spanish throne as
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One of a pair of Allegorical Figure Groups of the Arts and Virtues
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Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries
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Former monument to victims of the attack against Alfonso XIII
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Project of Filippo Juvarra for the Royal Palace of Madrid
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The Volume 2 of The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
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of his Naples works, but soon the newly-fashionable
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Index


Apollo
Marsyas
porcelain
Spain
King of Spain
Parque del Buen Retiro, Madrid
Fuente del Ángel Caído
Capodimonte porcelain
Naples
Carlos III of Spain
Giuseppe Gricci
soft paste porcelain
hard-paste porcelain
creamware
earthenware

Palace of Aranjuez
Gricci
Rococo
Neoclassicism
Napoleonic Wars
Royal Factory of La Moncloa

Palacio Real, Madrid
chinoiserie
Porcelain boudoir of Maria Amalia of Saxony
Palace of Portici
Palace of Capodimonte
Palace of Aranjuez

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