Nimy

The Faïencerie de Nimy, located in Nimy (suburb of Mons in Belgium), is the oldest pottery company in Belgium. Founded in 1789, it ceased its activities in 1951.

The Faïencerie de Nimy was founded by a native of Namur, Dieudonné-Joseph Antoine, and three employees in the village of Nimy to set up his factory near the Haine River and its mills, owned by the Chapter of Sainte-Waudru.

However, the Second World War was fatal for the pottery in Nimy and production was definitively stopped in 19515. The buildings and kilns were destroyed in 1954. The artistic movement The Maîtrise de Nimy survived the disappearance of this factory with the help of the Baudour kilns and welcomed other artists. In 1966, the Salon d'art libre de Paris awarded the gold medal to Jacques Geuens.

A museum of the old Nimy - crossroads of ceramics, located in Nimy itself, exhibits the most interesting achievements of the Nimy pottery factory and other porcelain factories in Belgium and northern France.