Pottery & porcelain
Naples pottery marks
Naples pottery marks are associated with porcelain from Italy. A impressed, painted mark on porcelain from Italy has a 1771–1834 period.
- Active years
- From 1525
- Country
- Italy
- Products
- porcelain
- Marks
- 25
Dated marks & timeline
25 marks
1771–1834
N
painted, impressed · blue or red · porcelain · Italy
Drawn blue or red marks, sometimes in the mass.
1771–1834
M
impressed, painted · blue or red · porcelain · Italy
Mark is in the mass or drawn blue or red.
Undated
red · faience
red · faience · Italy
Circa 1525 is the factory's founding date, not a stated mark-use date.
Undated
Giustiniani I N
red · earthenware · Italy
Associated with imitation Etruscan vases and Castelli or Urbino faience.
Undated
Giustiniani IM N
dark blue · faience · Italy
1525 is the factory's founding date, not a stated mark-use date.
Undated
P
dark blue · earthenware · Italy
The source gives 1525 as the factory foundation date, not the separate date of this mark.
Undated
B g
red · earthenware · Italy
The source dates production to 1525 without a separate mark-use interval.
Undated
B s G
red · earthenware · Italy
Tin-enamelled majolica; the stated circa-1525 date concerns the factory foundation.
Marks 25–25
About Naples
Ferdinand IV founded the Naples porcelain factory in 1771. It prospered until 1806 and made figures copying antique marble and bronze sculpture. The Napoleonic wars brought losses; some moulds and models were sold to Doccia. After several ownership changes, the factory closed in 1834. It made figures based on classical marble and bronze sculpture.
Losses during the Napoleonic wars led to sales of molds and models to Doccia, several changes of ownership and eventual closure in 1834. The Naples earthenware factory is recorded as founded in 1525.