Lot Essay
A porcelain manufactory was established at Korzec (today Korets, Ukraine) around 1784 by Prince Józef Klemens Czartoryski (1740–1810), where there was a large deposit of china-clay. The factory was destroyed by fire in the late 1790s and was rebuilt in the very early years of the 19th century when a chemist from Sèvres was hired to oversee the factory. The factory's existence was so short-lived, and often interrupted by the Napoleonic Wars, that its production was limited and its wares appear only rarely on the market. It closed around 1831.