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Capodimonte porcelain.(Report from Europe)(Royal Fragility: The Royal Factories of Capodimonte and Naples)(Brief article)
In 1738, nearly thirty years after Augustus II, called Augustus the Strong, the elector of Saxony, founded the first European hard-paste porcelain factory in Meissen, his granddaughter Maria Amalia married Charles de Bourbon, king of Naples and Sicily and later Charles III of Spain. She brought to Naples a passion for porcelain, and in 1743 her husband founded the royal Capodimonte porcelain manufactory on the palace grounds on the outskirts of the city. Its products gave an Italian twist to the medium. Inspiration came not only from Meissen and from the French rococo art of Jean Antoine Watteau but also from Venetian painting of the time. Chinoiserie was also popular throughout Europe, and Charles commissioned from the factory a magnificent polychrome boudoir suite for his wife in that style.
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