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Royal Delft (De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles)

Delft · Netherlands

Hand-painted Delft Blue and museum

What you’ll find

What Royal Delft (De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles) is known for

Founded in 1653, this is the last survivor of the original 17th-century Delftware potteries, where painters still hand-decorate every blue-and-white piece and mark it with a painter's initials and a year code. The Rotterdamseweg complex holds a museum, a factory store and Brasserie1653, and turns out plates, tiles and figurines finished on site.