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LoginHandcrafted in Ireland for over years, each piece of Belleek is created by 16 individual artisans. From design to production to quality control at our historic pottery, a process that has changed very little since Drawings are produced and after a careful selection process the most commercial designs make it to the modelling phase. A three-dimensional plaster or clay model is created from the design drawings. This is an accurate reproduction of the design showing every intricate detail and surface relief. Belleek Parian China with the exception of basket and flower making is slip cast. This is a technique where liquid clay body slip is poured into plaster moulds and allowed to form a layer the cast on the inside cavity of the mould.
The Belleek porcelain factory was founded in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland about , after landowner John Caldwell Bloomfield inherited his father's estate, and undertaking a geological survey, discovered the area was rich in minerals. Bloomfield went into partnership with a London architect and a Dublin merchant and set up a pottery business to provide work for the tenant farmers whose lives had been decimated by the Irish potato famine. The construction of the pottery commenced in , and it included a railway line to the works, so coal could be delivered for the kilns. The company commenced producing domestic wares, but it wasn't until that small quantities of the translucent ivory-looking porcelain for which Belleek is famous, were produced. Belleek was popular with Queen Victoria and was displayed at the great 19th century exhibitions, and enjoyed a large export market.
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