Rörstrand
/ˈrəːstrand/(also Rorstrand)
adjective
Designating pottery and porcelain of a kind originally manufactured at the Rörstrand factory.
- The company first manufactured faience, and subsequently produced creamware, bone china, and other ceramics. The Rörstrand company merged with the Gustavsberg ceramics company in 1988 to form Rörstrand–Gustavsberg, and was subsequently owned by the Iittala Group..
noun
Rörstrand pottery or porcelain.
Origin
Mid 19th century; earliest use found in Horace Marryat (1818–1887). From Rörstrand, the name of the place where the company's first ceramics factory was opened in 1726 (now part of the Stockholm suburb of Birkastan).