Coffee service in real Limoges porcelain, GBA, Gérard Duffreisseix and abbot

Service of 5 porcelain coffee cups and saucers, very delicate, very nice handmade work. Vintage porcelain porcelain from the gda manufacture (gérard dufraisseix & abbot) marketed in the 19s. Each piece is stamped with: "gda – france" Gda is in fact, the oldest porcelain factory in limoges created in 1797, still in operation today (under the current name of royal limoges). Limoges porcelain is one of the two main porcelain productions of france, and the only one from a real production territory, located around the city of limoges in the hautes – viennes. It was in 1768 that exploitable deposits of kaolin, an essential material for the production of this ceramic, were found, and it was from this discovery that limoges porcelain was born and developed. The history of this factory includes the biggest names in limoges porcelain. First known as alluaud, the house of gérard, dufraisseix and morel, then gérard, dufraisseix & abbot, from december 26, 1900 when the american abbot became one of the partners.