History of Ceramics in Tuscany

Other historic factories in Sesto

Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century the first firms for handcrafted ceramics were set up, often on the initiative of ex painters and modellers from the Manifattura Richard-Ginori. Some companies, whose production was discovered in the last few decades, today are considered to belong rightfully to the most important expression of Italian ceramic art in the last century: the Società Ceramica Colonnata, the Manifattura Egisto Fantechi, the Manifattura Ernesto Conti and the Ceramica Artistica Ciulli.

In the 1920s and 1930s, when the ceramic sector in Sesto went through a period of expansion, the following companies were noted for the quality of their production and their innovative taste: the S.A.C.A., the Alma, the Barraud, Messeri & C. and the Carraresi e Lucchesi.
 

	Ginori
	Ciulli
	Colonnata
	Ernesto Conti
	Egisto Fantechi
	S.A.C.A.
	Carraresi & Lucchesi
	Barraud, Messeri & C.