Royal Dux Porcelain is produced in the small town of Duchcov, which is found to the North West of Prague, the capital city of the newly formed Czech Republic. From 1918 until December 31st 1992 the country was known as Czechoslovakia, and behind what was the Iron Curtain from 1948 till 1990.

Royal Dux Porcelain is now one hundred per cent privatised and is taking great steps to return to its once impressive past. Much information about the company and its history was destroyed. Old company catalogues and sales information are practically non-existent, many of the old moulds were just tossed out, after the company was nationalised in 1948.

China had the secret of porcelain for one thousand years and managed to keep the secret of porcelain to itself. It was only in the year 1709 that Johann Friedrich Bottger succeeded, after many years of investigation and attempts, in making porcelain accessible in all Europe.

This important discovery soon began to spread. In 1710 the making porcelain in Meissen was happening, and in1718, Vienna learned the secret of porcelain production. From Vienna the knowledge started to spread all over Europe, in 1720 making porcelain came to Venice, in 1750 to Hochst, in 1751 to Strasbourg, and in 1753 to Berlin.

In the last 10 years of the18th century, porcelain production began in West Bohemia thanks to efforts of specialists from Thuringia, and in 1794 the first Bohemian porcelain was produced in Klasterec, (production from this factory is still ongoing and is trademarked THUN).

In the sixties of the 19th century there existed only three factories, but ten years later there were eight, and in the eighties there where twelve, by the end of the century there where twenty and in the year 1905 there were nearly thirty factories in this region.

Among the first the factories in this region was Duchcov (Dux), founded in the year 1853. Their first production was utility ceramics; the factory was bought by the experienced model drawer Eduard Eichler and turned into the firm E. Eichler Thonwaren Fabrik. In 1862 he also bought the small factory in Selty near Ceska Lipa. The factory at Duchov experienced a period of prosperity producing goods mainly from terra cotta, faience and majolica in the genre of Copenhagen, Worcester and Sevres. In 1878 the Eichler firm was awarded the Silver Medal at the exhibition in Paris.

At the turn of the century a number of important changes occurred. The factory reinforced its capital through the transformation of Eduard Eichler's private property into a stock-holding company that in 1898 became to be known as Duxer Porzellan Manufaktur, A-G. with the seat in

Berlin. The newly established company bought the porcelain factory in Blankenhain near Weimar and the factory in Selty was liquidated.

During this era the factory started to produce, apart from their traditional products of faience and majolica, also porcelain. In the year 1900 it began using its famous trade mark, the Pink triangle, a rose coloured triangle made from pink porcelain with the inscription ROYAL DUX BOHEMIA around an acorn. The pink triangle is still used up until this day.