128-year-old tile factory continues to promote Turkish porcelain

128-year-old tile factory continues to promote Turkish porcelain

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Turkey’s 128-year-old chinaware factory, Yıldız Tile Imperial Factory, continues to promote Turkish porcelain with its crescent and moon emblem, since its establishment under Sultan Abdulhamid II’s reign in 1891.
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In a bid to revive Turkish tile art and accelerate it, Sultan Abdulhamid II founded the factory at the garden of the Yıldız Palace to gratify his love for art.
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The factory initially started as a workshop for porcelain production and still functions as a museum and a factory up till this day.
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Even though it was damaged by an earthquake just three years after its establishment, the factory was rebuilt by the Italian architect Raimondo d’Aronco.
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“In those years [1890s], Europe was producing its own porcelain against [imports of] Chinese and Japanese porcelain, and that production was imported into our reign. This factory [Yıldız Tile Imperial Factory] was established to revive the Turkish tile art,” the National Palaces Administration vice president, Ahmet Çapaoğlu, told Anadolu Agency on Feb. 27.
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The technology, molds, and many needed materials were imported from France’s Sèvres and Limoges factories for the establishment of Yıldız Tile Imperial Factory.
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“Porcelain and chinaware products are being produced here from the first years of its establishment yet our production is weighted on porcelain right now. Our production is focused more decorative products rather than tableware,” Çapaoğlu said.
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The goods produced at the factory can be purchased as souvenirs from the National Palaces’ gift markets, Çapaoğlu said.
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The official stressed that this special factory has been promoting Turkish porcelain for 128 years. “Some parts of our collection are replicas of the first produced materials of the factory. When you look at collections of European dynasties, it is likely that you see the Yıldız Porcelain’ rarefied works,” he said.
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The factory’s original moon and crescent emblem can be seen stamped on each of its pieces, with the year of production indicated just below the symbol.
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During the years of the World War I, Yıldız Tile Imperial Factory was producing porcelain cups for telephone and telegraph insulators. Later, in the first years of the young Turkish Republic, these productions continued for a while.
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The factory became affiliated with the National Palaces in 1994 and is now associated with Presidency of National Palaces Administration.
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