Zurich Porcelain Manufactory

A factory was opened in 1763 and started by making a creamy white soft-paste, which is now very rare. Two years later, hard-paste was made and this was decorated very carefully in distinctive styles that make the ware some of the most beautiful of its period. Figures are rare, expensive, and many are very attractively modeled and colored. Little or no porcelain was made after about 1791. The mark is the letter 'z' in under glaze blue, sometimes with one or more dots below.