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
Porcelain Museum (Florence) European producers. Among the manufacturers of origin on display are: the Royal Factory of Naples (Capodimonte); the Tuscan Carlo Ginori at Sesto Fiorentino; French manufacturers Sèvres and Vincennes in Paris; Viennese porcelain, largely collected by Ferdinand III of Tuscany; the German porcelain factory of Meissen. The museum is among the hundred most visited art museums in the world. Porcelain Museum (Florence) The Porcelain Museum (Italian: "Museo delle porcellane") is located in the "Casino del Cavaliere", one of the highest points of the Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, Italy. The museum, housed in the Villino del Cavaliere high