Porcelain figure “Boy with kid” – Wallendorf 1764, Thuringia

Porcelain figure “Boy with kid” – Wallendorf 1764, Thuringia

Beautiful porcelain figure of the brand Wallendorfer Porzellanmanufaktur from Thuringia, The scene shows a young boy happily playing with a kid. The figure is in an undamaged condition.

Wallendorf Porcelain Manufactory

After the concession for porcelain production was granted by the Duke of Saxe-Coburg on March 30, 1764, Wolfgang Hammann founded the porcelain manufactory in Lichte (Wallendorf), one of the oldest in Europe, together with his son and the glass painter Gottfried Greiner and his cousin Gotthelf Greiner. Wallendorf porcelain was originally fired from raw materials from the surrounding area, so the body was correspondingly impure and tinted. As early as 1780, however, the purchase and use of Bohemian kaolin made it possible to fire pure white bodies, so that in 1793 Wilhelm Martius said of Wallendorf porcelain: “It is dazzlingly white, … finely ground and so hard that it gives sparks on steel.”

Until 1833, the manufactory was then owned by the Hammann family. This was followed by many changing years, during which the Wallendorf porcelain manufactory found itself in the hands of various owners, names that still stand for porcelain tradition and quality today: Hutschenreuther, Kämpfe, Sontag, Heubach, Fraureuth and Heinz Schaubach.