- NameCapodimonte, Buen Retiro, Buen Retiro, Spanien
- Nationality/Datesfounded 1760, ended 1808
BiographyCapodimonte porcelain, soft-paste porcelain produced by a factory established in 1743 at the Palazzo of Capodimonte by Charles III of Naples. Ware was produced there in large quantity and wide variety until 1759, when the concern was dismantled and removed to Buen Retiro, near Madrid, when Charles became king of Spain. Capodimonte is to be distinguished from the products of the royal factory at Naples that Charles’s son, Ferdinand IV, founded in 1771 and that was active until 1806. Giuseppe Gricci was chief modeler during the life of the Capodimonte factory, and J.S. Fischer and Luigi Restile were, successively, chief painters.