Zunft Krüge und Zunft Zeichen
Craft Guilds and Guild Signs on 18th century ceramics
Historical context of the guild system
A standard element of the guild organisation was that the members were granted, as a privilege of their membership, the right to produce and sell a specific product, or range of products, to the exclusion of all non-members. (Source: Access to the Trade: Monopoly and Mobility in European Craft Guilds, 17th and 18th Centuries Maarten Prak Utrecht University, 2018)Guilds were most common and powerful during the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance. Under the guild system the artisan worked on order...
