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There are many great collections of French porcelain and societies for people with an interest in it around the world.
Where to see French porcelain and find out more…
Museums
GREAT BRITAIN
Public collections and links to on-line catalogues:
Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum Wales | Homepage | Collection
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford | Homepage | Collection
Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle | Homepage | Collection
British Museum, London | Homepage | Collection
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge | Homepage | Collection
The Higgins, Bedford | Homepage
Holburne Museum, Bath | Homepage | Collection
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh | Homepage | Collection
Victoria and Albert Museum, London | Homepage | Collection
Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire | Homepage | Collection
Wallace Collection, London | Homepage | Collection
The Royal Collection:
The Royal Collection | Homepage | Collection
National Trust:
Collections of the National Trust
National Trust properties with significant European ceramics collections include:
Belton House, Lincolnshire
Fenton House, London
Hinton Ampner, Warwickshire
Knole, Kent
Osterley, Middlesex
Stourhead, Wiltshire
Sudbury Hall, Derbyshire
Uppark, Sussex
Upton House, Warwickshire
The Vyne, Hampshire
Also:
Apsley House, London (English Heritage)
Private Collections open to the public (see websites for access):
Blair Castle, Perthshire
Boughton House, Northamptonshire
Bowhill House, Selkirkshire
Dalmeny House, Edinburgh
Drumlanrig Castle, Dumfriesshire
Goodwood House, Sussex
Grimsthorpe Castle, Lincolnshire
Harewood House, Leeds
Scone Palace, Perth
Stratfield Saye, Hampshire
Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire
CANADA
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto | Homepage | Collection
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts | Homepage | Collection
USA
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore | Homepage
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Homepage | Collection
Mint Museum, Charlotte | Homepage
Cleveland Museum of Art | Homepage
Art Institute of Chicago | Homepage | Collection
Detroit Institute of Art | Homepage | Collection
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford | Homepage | Collection
Museum of Fine Art, Houston | Homepage | Collection
J Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | Homepage | Collection
Los Angeles County Museum of Art | Homepage | Collection
Minneapolis Institute of Arts | Homepage
Frick Collection, New York | Homepage | Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | Homepage | Collection
Philadelphia Museum of Art | Homepage | Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh | Homepage
Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco | Homepage | Collection
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, San Marino | Homepage | Collection
Seattle Art Museum | Homepage | Collection
St. Louis Art Museum | Homepage
Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, Washington D.C. | Homepage | Collection
FRANCE
Principal public collections:
Search the French Museum collections, Joconde Database
Sèvres Cité de la céramique
Musée Adrien Dubouché, Limoges
Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Musée de la Céramique, Rouen
Château de Versailles
Château de Fontainebleau
Domaine de Chantilly
Palais de Compiegne
Many French regional museums have good holdings of French porcelain and faience
AUSTRIA
BELGIUM
CROATIA
DENMARK
GERMANY
Many German museums and palaces have some French ceramics, see especially:
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Porzellansammlung
Schloss Fasanerie, Fulda
Schloss Favorite, Rastatt
ITALY
Museo delle Porcellano, Palazzo Pitti, Florence
Richard-Ginori Museum of the Manifattura di Doccia, near Florence
Museo duca di Martina, Naples
NETHERLANDS
RUSSIA
SWEDEN
AUSTRALIA
Societies
GREAT BRITAIN
English Ceramic Circle
Furniture History Society
Society for the History of Collecting
Northern Ceramic Society
Oxford Ceramics Group
Society for Court Studies