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Both Charles Pickman and his successors had a great talent for recognising the artistic value of the pieces created by the master ceramists of their time. It is for this reason that they soon decided to make a selection of the most valuable pieces and to display them publicly. Although these were initially exhibited more as production samples than museum pieces, they gradually came to represent a unique collection: The Pickman Collection of Historic and Artistic Ceramics.
Renowned artists and master ceramists worked with La Cartuja de Sevilla and their talent contributed to the task of transforming functional objects for daily use into exceptional works of art. Both unique pieces decorated by great ceramic painters such as Arellano, Tortosa, Villalobos, Rodríguez de Zuloaga, Alorda,… and more standard pieces - dinner services, tea and coffee sets, complements - which have formed part of the company's commercial catalogue for 165 years, are now exhibited in the Museum.
The exhibition also features a broad compilation of original decorative designs, many of which have never been used, as well as a number of hand tools and examples of industrial equipment used in the production and decoration processes.
The pieces exhibited inside the museum are grouped by style and period with the form of decoration and the shapes reflecting the taste and preferences as well as the predominant decorative styles of the time. In addition to the most popular designs from each period, the collection also includes a number of more select pieces specially manufactured for royal houses, and examples produced for the more demanding upper classes. Alongside these are also pieces which reflect the more traditional and popular tastes and others in modernist, renaissance or Arabic styles…
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The most important recognition came in 1996 when the complex was declared a
Site of Cultural Interest, coming under state ownership and being integrated
into the National Museum of Decorative Arts.
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Museum history