They decide to produce simple pieces, cheap and for the largest possible public, made from loam from Luxemburg.François Boch deceased in 1854 and the faience factory was taken over by his three youngest sons, Jean-François and Dominique, twins of 19, and Pierre-Joseph, the youngest of 17.During a recent study trip to mainland Southeast Asia researching the local textile and ceramic traditions, twice I came across some 19th-century European ceramics in Bangkok. Direct shipments between Bangkok and Europe was rare.

I was truly delighted to see it, as I can finally be certain that Scottish trade ceramics did reach Bangkok, something that I had been speculating when previously writing a blog post on The other spongeware dish has a slightly different shape and the base is broader than the Bell’s dish (Fig. The printed mark indicates that it was made by the Nimy-Lez-Mons pottery in Belgium, possibly during the period between 1890-1915, when the company began to export ceramics to Asia and before the business was badly disrupted by the First World War.Lorraine becomes French territory in 1765 and the three brothers obtain a double nationality, the French and the Luxemburg.Fearing the competition of the French faience factories, and with the help of the decentralisation politics of Maria Theresa of Austria, they obtain the permission, in 1766, to establish a faience factory near Luxemburg, under attractive tax conditions.Royal Sphinx is a pottery, founded by Petrus Regout in 1834 in Maastricht.The factory origins from the glass-cutting company Petrus Regout & Co, established in 1827.In addition, Peter Regout started a wholesale company in glass, crystal and pottery.In 1834 Regout started a glass factory and in 1836 he also started to produce pottery.