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
Royal Society for the Promotion of the Natural Sciences of Naples the date of extinction of the society must be around 1937.. Royal Society for the Promotion of the Natural Sciences of Naples The Royal Society of Encouragement to Natural Sciences of Naples (, "Società d'Incoraggiamento per le Scienze e le Arti Utili" or "Reale Istituto d'Incoraggiamento di Napoli") was a XIX-century learned society, established in the Kingdom of Naples during the rule of king Joseph Napoleon at the beginning of the XIX century. His activity, with different denominations, lasted until the first decades of the XX century; it was officially closed in the 1930s, most likely in 1937. Its seat