proof products is carried on at many manufactories in Skane. The following
were manufactured from clay and slate in 1912:
Fireproof products........................ 88 937 tons of the value of 1665 000 kr.
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Total sum 8514 000 kr.
The export of fireproof clay in 1912 was 37 922 tons and rose in 1913 to
40 530 tons.
Workshop fo r Sand-pressing, Gustavsberg.
Pottery.
In Sweden earthenware and china have long been produced and since
1911 at five large factories. There also exist a great number of small
works for the manufacture of stoves and crockery. Rorstrands fabrik
(present proprietors Rorstrands fabriksaktiebolag) is the oldest factory and
is situated in Stockholm. It was founded in 1726 and up to the beginning
of 1800 produced Delftfaience. In 1782 Rorstrand bought the
Marieberg factory, built in 1758 and closed down in 1788. These two
works made ware for domestic use, tiles for stoves, and fancy articles, all
made of . red Uppsala-clay, covered with thick tin glaze. In 1820 the
manufacture of Wedgwood’s “Queen’s ware”, made of white clays and
flint and covered with transparent glazes, was introduced at Rorstrand,
but the results were not satisfactory before 1850. — In the year 1827, the
Gustavsberg factory was established at Varmdon (present proprietors
Specimen o f Rorstrand Pottery,
Vase in majolica, 7 feet high.
Aktiebolaget Gustavsbergs fabriks intressenter), and during the thirties
and forties the same articles were produced there as at Rorstrand. Between
1850 and 1860, energetic efforts were made to develop and modernize the
factories, and although they have both continued to make domestic ware
and dinner services of earthenware and china, they have each introduced
special lines of their own. Thus Rorstrand has turned out ornamental tile
stoves of majolica, insulators, and other articles for electrical use of felspar
china, besides exquisite art-ware with underglaze-decorations of felspar
.27—133179. Sweden. II.