Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain Capodimonte porcelain (sometimes "Capo di Monte") is porcelain created by the Capodimonte porcelain manufactory ("Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte"), which operated in Naples, Italy, between 1743 and 1759. Capodimonte is the most outstanding factory for early Italian porcelain, the Doccia porcelain of Florence being the other main Italian factory. Capodimonte is most famous for its moulded figurines. The porcelain of Capodimonte, and later Naples, was a "superb" translucent soft-paste, "more beautiful" but much harder to fire than the German hard-pastes, or "a particularly clear, warm, white, covered with a mildly lustrous glaze". The Capodimonte mark was a fleur-de-lys in
Gaudiosus of Naples him as well as the introduction of some relics, including those of Saint Restituta. Gaudiosus' relics were later buried in the Catacombs of San Gennaro in the 6th century. One of the cemeteries of these catacombs, San Gaudioso, refers to Gaudiosus. Gaudiosus of Naples Saint Gaudiosus of Naples or Gaudiosus the African () was a bishop of Abitina (Abitine, Abitinia; "Abitinae article") in Africa Province during the 5th century AD Abitina was a village near Carthage in present-day western Tunisia. Born "Septimius Celius Gaudiosus", he fled North Africa during the persecutions of Genseric, king of the Vandals, in a leaky