La Cartuja De Sevilla

In 1822 Charles Pickman comes to Cadiz to continue the family business of China products made in England and had good start in the Spanish market of the time.Taking advantage of the disentailment of Mendizábal esclesiasticos goods, in 1841, you installed an earthenware factory in the interior of the Carthusian monastery of Santa María de Las Cuevas, made linking the names of the Pickman and La Cartuja of Seville until our days.Since the Foundation of the factory in 1841, Charles Pickman established manufacturing innovative methods such as the import of raw materials, the use of molds, the use of specialized machinery like the mechanical arm and presses, the English specialists and experience ceramist of the founder who was the initial factory success.The second half of century XIX was of great splendor for Pickman S.A., which received numerous awards and gold medals at international exhibitions: Paris (1867-1878), London (1862),