Augsburg / Germany
Conno Keramik on Kirchgasse in Augsburg is the workshop of Cornelia Joseph, who makes ceramics and porcelain.
Best for Ceramics and porcelain from the workshop
Ceramics of Germany
26 stores · curated ORBIS register
German porcelain is a set of court manufactories that outlived their courts, still painting by hand under the old marks. Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg hand-produces porcelain at Nymphenburg Palace since 1747. Meissen Porcelain hand-paints porcelain tableware and collectible figurines. KPM Berlin (Konigliche Porzellan-Manufaktur) was founded in 1763 as the Prussian royal porcelain works. Thin porcelain held up to a window shows its age more honestly than any certificate in the box. The manufactory mark sits under the glaze and carries the value, so find it before you read the price tag.
Visit official site ↗Der Töpferladen
Hidden GemBamberg
An independent Bamberg pottery shop offering handmade ceramics and stoneware. It is a long-standing local address for traditional and contemporary German craft pottery.
Best for Handmade German pottery and ceramics
Visit official site ↗Ma.ki Ceramics
Hidden GemBamberg
A Bamberg ceramics studio producing handcrafted contemporary tableware and pottery. The independent maker is rooted in the city.
Best for Handmade contemporary ceramics
Visit official site ↗Motel a Miio Pottery
Hidden GemEhrenstraße 73, Belgian Quarter / Online
Motel a Miio Pottery is a Cologne house for handmade ceramics, Portuguese-inspired pottery, colourful tableware. Founded in 2016; Made in Portugal.
Best for Handmade ceramics, Portuguese-inspired pottery, colourful tableware
Visit official site ↗Darmstadt-Arheilgen
Silke Sannemann hand-builds functional ceramics with plaster moulds rather than a wheel, deliberately keeping edges and irregularities so no two pieces match. She inherited the Greinstraße workshop from her mother and welcomes visitors by appointment.
Best for Hand-built stoneware tableware
Visit official site ↗Dresden / Germany
Pilla Pottery on Hoyerswerdaer Strasse is a pottery studio in Dresden selling ceramics made by hand.
Best for Ceramics made by hand in the studio
Visit official site ↗Krämerbrücke 10, Erfurt
Furniture restorer Christian Wetzel has run this antiques shop at Krämerbrücke 10 since 1997, dealing in Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and Art Nouveau and Art Deco pieces. Alongside jewellery, antique linens and lighting, the owners also buy in select older pieces.
Best for Lauscha glass, Thuringian porcelain and period antiques
Visit official site ↗Klausenerstraße, Erfurt
Porcelain artist Claudia Bock hand-forms and paints tableware and giftware at her Erfurt studio on Klausenerstraße. Each cup, plate and ornament is made in limited numbers, often with fine painted detail.
Best for Hand-painted porcelain and gifts
Visit official site ↗Erfurt
The Töpfermühle combines a working ceramics studio with a supply shop for potters, stocking clays, glazes and tools. Its own handmade tableware and decorative pieces are fired and sold on the premises in Erfurt.
Best for Handmade ceramics and pottery supplies
Visit official site ↗Konstanz / Germany
Pläsierchen is a shop on Theodor-Heuss-Straße in Konstanz selling pottery and toys, as well as clothing.
Best for Pottery, toys and clothing
Visit official site ↗Lübeck / Germany
Manufaktur für Schönes on Schüsselbuden in Lübeck sells ceramics and candles, along with soaps, in a shop the Diakonie runs.
Best for Ceramics, candles and soaps
Visit official site ↗Schwabing
Munich Schwabing gallery and antiques — a sprawling basement treasure trove of chandeliers, mirrors, frames, candlesticks, and collectible porcelain.
Best for Gallery and antiques in Schwabing since 1984
Kunst Oase is an independent antiques and art gallery located in Munich's Schwabing neighborhood at Hohenzollernstrasse, established in its current form in 1984 by owner Manfred Wambsganss. Wambsganss, originally trained as a freelance artist, took over the basement space to create a gallery for colleagues and has since built it into a comprehensive antiques destination spanning two levels. The street-level shop introduces visitors to paintings, candlesticks, decorative tableware, and ornamental pieces. A sprawling basement—accessible by descending past antique mirrors—holds an extensive inventory of vintage and period furnishings: more mirrors, picture frames, glassware, and collectible porcelain. Hundreds of antique lamps, chandeliers, and elaborate crystal lustres from multiple decades hang from the ceiling, creating a densely layered, visually immersive environment. The shop operates on a self-guided browsing model; Wambsganss, often seated on a corner bench, greets visitors warmly but allows customers to explore at their own pace without sales pressure. The space has become known for its abundance and the feeling of discovery.
Visit official site ↗Glockenbachviertel
Run by stylist Nora Khereddine from Munich's Glockenbachviertel, this concept store mixes vintage furniture, pottery and lifestyle objects — including pieces sourced from her travels in Morocco — with oak shelving and bowls handmade by carpenter Fritz Baumann in his Munich workshop.
Best for Minimalist design objects and locally made woodwork, curated in Munich
Nora Khereddine Objects is a concept store run by stylist and designer Nora Khereddine in Munich's Glockenbachviertel district. Rather than a conventional retail showroom, the space is arranged as a lived-in interior, mixing furniture, ceramics, vintage finds and lifestyle accessories in muted natural tones — beige, grey and broken white — so that fashion, interior objects and fragrance are presented together in one setting rather than as separate departments. Part of the stock comes from Khereddine's own travels in Morocco, brought back and worked into the store's rotating selection of vintage pieces. Alongside the sourced and vintage items, the store carries furniture made specifically for it, including simple oak shelves and bowls handmade by the carpenter and artist Fritz Baumann in his own Munich workshop — one of the shop's few directly commissioned, locally produced product lines rather than curated finds. The store has also hosted pop-up presentations from other independent brands, such as the jewelry label Lutz Morris, reflecting a curatorial approach that treats the shop as an ongoing changing exhibition of objects as much as a fixed retail inventory.
Visit official site ↗Nymphenburg
A historic Munich porcelain manufactory still producing by hand at Nymphenburg Palace.Established 1747.
Best for Hand-produced porcelain at Nymphenburg Palace since 1747
Visit official site ↗Altstadt, Freiburg
Two shops in the old town, at Munsterplatz 16 and Rathausgasse 30, stocking hand-carved cuckoo clocks with certificates alongside weather houses, ceramics and Black Forest crafts. It functions as a gateway for genuine Schwarzwald souvenirs a short walk from the Munster.
Best for Cuckoo clocks and Black Forest crafts
Visit official site ↗ARTEmani
Hidden GemOld Town / Online
ARTEmani in Lübeck — Hand-cut coloured glass from the Rotter Glas manufactory, ceramics, textiles, leather, jewelry and wood from rotating Kunsthandwerker artists.
Best for Hand-cut coloured glass from the Rotter Glas manufactory, ceramics, textiles, leather, jewelry
Visit official site ↗Munster / Germany
Grun und Form fills its Munster shops with hand-picked homeware, from its own Umbrian-made ceramic line to French glass, Tunisian olive wood, Fermob garden furniture and made-to-order scaffolding-board tables. Customers browse the Rosenstrasse and Bohlweg stores or order from the seasonal catalogue.
Best for Home goods, ceramics, interiors, design
Visit official site ↗Marburg / Germany
Annegret Witzlau's ceramics atelier in Marburg-Wehrda produces and sells handmade pottery, from lettered pots and tableware to communion sets and garden pieces. The open workshop welcomes visitors on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays and also runs throwing courses and modelling workshops.
Best for Annegret Witzlau's ceramics atelier in Marburg-Wehrda produces and sells handmade pottery
Visit official site ↗Passau / Germany
In a workshop in Passau's old town, master potter Auer throws, glazes and twice-fires dishwasher- and frost-proof tableware and garden ceramics. The studio keeps regular opening hours for visitors and also sells through its Etsy shop.
Best for Pottery, ceramics, tableware, garden ceramics
Visit official site ↗Charlottenburg
Founded in 1763 as the Prussian royal porcelain works, KPM still hand-forms and hand-paints its tableware and figures at the Charlottenburg manufactory on Wegelystrasse. Patterns such as Kurland and Urbino carry the cobalt-blue sceptre mark that has signed each piece for more than 260 years.
Best for Hand-painted Berlin porcelain
Visit official site ↗Leyk Lichthaeuser
Hidden GemSchmiedgasse and Erlbacher Strasse shops, Rothenburg ob der Tauber
This Rothenburg manufacturer handcrafts ceramic Lichthäuser, illuminated miniature light-houses lit from within, including a series modeled on Rothenburg's own architecture. The pieces sell through its factory shops in town.
Best for Handmade ceramic light-houses / candle houses
Visit official site ↗Meissen Porcelain
Heritage HouseMeissen / Germany / Online
Europe's first porcelain manufactory, founded in 1710 in Meissen after Johann Friedrich Böttger cracked the formula for hard-paste porcelain, still hand-paints its tableware, figurines, and art objects on-site in Saxony. Its crossed-swords mark, adopted in the 1720s, is among the world's longest continuously used trademark for porcelain.
Best for Hand-painted porcelain tableware and collectible figurines
Visit official site ↗Rosenthal
Heritage HouseSelb / Germany / Online
German porcelain and tableware manufacturer since 1879 — collaborations with Bauhaus masters, contemporary designers, and Michelin-starred restaurants.
Best for Designer porcelain and luxury tableware
Visit official site ↗Staatliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen
Heritage HouseMeissen
This porcelain manufactory, founded in 1710, still marks its work with the hand-painted crossed swords in the town of Meissen on the Elbe. The range runs from the Swan Service and figurines to fine art and porcelain jewellery, all modelled and painted by hand.
Best for Hand-painted fine porcelain and figurines
Marburg / Online
Toepferei Wirth, run by Eva Kleiner, is a pottery making everyday ceramics including coffee and tea services, tableware, storage jars and children's sets. Its online shop sells the range across categories and the workshop also appears at pottery and Christmas markets.
Best for Eva Kleiner's coffee and tea services, tableware, storage jars, and children's sets
Visit official site ↗Villeroy & Boch
Heritage HouseMettlach / Germany / Online
German ceramics house since 1748 — from fine dinnerware to bathroom ceramics.
Best for Classic European dinnerware and ceramics
Visit official site ↗Curated ORBIS register · official links shown where recorded