Sociedade de Porcelanas de Coimbra _ 2

The Sociedade de Porcelanas de Coimbra (SP) appeared in the 1930s, trying to find a space between Vista Alegre (1824) and Empresa Electro-ceramica (1919), which dominated, at that time, the domestic porcelain market. SP was successful in utility tableware (dinner and tea services) among companies – hotels and restaurants – and at the level of private consumers. It also produced some artistic porcelain, taking advantage of the few painters who managed to replicate it in other existing factories.

The success of porcelain in Portugal, especially since the Second World War, has to do, on the one hand, with industrial development, and, on the other hand, with the strong increase in consumption that has been taking place in the West. Industrial development resulted in an improvement in equipment and techniques for “printing” designs on the folder.

The increase in consumption had to do with improving the living conditions of the populations. Portuguese companies in the sector, especially Vista Alegre, increase their export vocation. Porcelain was always better than earthenware: cleaner, more durable, more beautiful.
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SP closed its doors definitively on 12/12/2005 and remains so to this day, with only a few pieces remaining to remember the golden times of mass and specific production, especially as a shelter for homeless people, drug addicts and other cases of life. who live there.

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