company part of a plc industry porcelain founded 1824 headquarters lhavo portugal website http www.myvistaalegre.com the vista alegre manufacture in lhavo vista alegre plate made in brazil vista alegre is a portuguese porcelain manufacturer located in lhavo in the district of aveiro . by may 2001 grupo vista alegre joined with the atlantis group and created the largest national tableware group and the sixth in the world in this speciality the grupo vista alegre atlantis . fabrica de porcelana vista alegre with its historical background and tradition is the most representative industrial unit of the eleven ones of the group producing around 10 million pieces a year in decorative and domestic porcelain . in 2002 it finished an industrial re engineering process to increase both its capacity and production volume . an integration project was also under way for the two porcelain production centres of the group fpva and chousa nova . history edit influenced by the success of the marinha grande glass factory pinto basto decided to create a porcelain glass and chemical processes factory . he started in 1815 by acquiring the mansion quinta da ermida a beautiful place near lhavo town and by the aveiro estuary in a region rich in the essential manufacturing elements of porcelain and glass such as fuels clay white and thin sands and crystallized pebbles . later on he also bought the surrounding 100 acre 0.4 km premises where he launched his project . the patent authorising the operation of the vista alegre factory was granted in 1824 by king d. jo o vi benefiting of all graces privileges and exceptions enjoyed or to be enjoyed in the future by the national factories . the just five years later vista alegre was granted the title of royal factory to honor its art and industrial success . from 1832 on the factory intensified its work and concentrated on perfecting porcelain reaching a golden period that culminated late in the 19th century . the contribution from foreign artists such as victor c. rousseau was important mainly for the creation of a painting school . there were very relevant facts during this period of vista alegre s history such as the development of a social work ; the introduction of golden decorations landscape motifs and delicate flowers ; the involvement in contests paris pal cio de cristal in porto and finally in 1880 the end of glass production . during the following years and until the end of world war i the brilliant previous period tarnished by social unrest led the firm to harsh difficulties . nevertheless the spirit bred by the founder as well as the support of the drawing and painting school by artist duarte jos de magalh es boosted the reorganization and modernization of the firm . and so vista alegre while celebrating its first centennial began restructuring itself that was a landmark in the company as it became an incorporated firm updated the factory s structures inaugurated two stores and boosted the design workshops . as of 1947 and until 1968 the international contacts the formation of specialized technical teams the purchase of both empresa electro cer mica its main competitor so far and sociedade de porcelanas sent vista alegre on the technological development and industrial path as well as opening new markets . by the 1970s f brica de porcelana de vista alegre took important measures to update its technological segment and enhanced the formation of new young painters . by 1983 it created the artistical orientation board goa in portuguese as for gabinete de orienta o art stica and in 1985 the cade centro de arte e desenvolvimento da empresa to encourage creativity and to contribute to the formation in the design painting and sculpting areas support the factory technically and artistically by promoting its development . the company was bought by visabeira in 2009 . external links edit vista alegre mix4max v t e porcelain china general chinese porcelain chinese export porcelain chinese influences on islamic pottery types proto celadon 16th century bce celadon 1st century yue 2nd century ding 10th century qingbai 12th century jingdezhen 11th century on blue and white 14th century on blanc de chine 14th century on kraak 16th century swatow 16th century tianqi 17th century kangxi 17th century famille jaune noire rose verte 17th century canton 18th century korea general korean porcelain types goryeo 10th century joseon 14th century japan general japanese porcelain types arita imari nabeshima kakiemon kutani europe general french porcelain chinese porcelain in european painting armorial ware types fonthill vase 1338 royal tichelaar 1572 medici 1575 rouen 1673 nevers saint cloud 1693 meissen 1710 r rstrand 1726 chantilly 1730 doccia 1735 vincennes 1740 chelsea 1743 capodimonte 1743 oranienbaum 1744 mennecy 1745 bow 1747 nymphenburg porcelain manufactory 1747 plymouth 1748 worcester 1751 frankenthal porcelain factory 1755 s vres 1756 derby 1757 weesp porselein 1759 wedgwood 1759 wallendorf 1764 etiolles 1770 limoges 1771 loosdrechts porselein 1774 royal copenhagen 1775 clignancourt 1775 revol 1789 herend porcelain manufactory 1826 bing & gr ndahl 1853 zsolnay 1853 wagner & apel porzellan 1877 porsgrund 1885 technologies soft paste porcelain hard paste porcelain bone china china painting factory mark people chinamen ehrenfried walther von tschirnhaus johann friedrich b ttger fran ois xavier d entrecolles dmitry vinogradov collections british museum london asia department percival david foundation the david collection copenhagen dresden porcelain collection gardiner museum toronto kuskovo state museum of ceramics moscow s vres cit de la c ramique paris mus e des arts d coratifs paris palace museum beijing topkap palace istanbul victoria and albert museum london museum of royal worcester walters art museum baltimore retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vista alegre company & oldid 698362288 categories belgian royal warrant holderscompanies listed on the euronext exchangescompanies established in 2001manufacturing companies of portugalporcelainportuguese brandsportuguese pottery navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisportugu s edit links this page was last modified on 5 january 2016 at 17 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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