Table I - The Potters of Kreussen

The potters are listed in roughly chronological order; only the first member of a family which established a Hafner (potter’s) lineage is listed.

Georg Vest Early 16th century
Thomas Eyll (or Eull) Late 16th century
Lorentz Speckner Late 16th century
Johannes Vogell Early 17th century
Leonhard Schmidt Early 17th century
Johann Christoph Seller Mid-17th century
Bartel Pohler Mid-17th century
Balthasar Sailer Late 17th century
Friedrich Wilhelm Kiessling Early 18th century
Thomas Domayer Mid-18th century
Johann Paulus Stübinger Mid-18th century
Jakob Eyrich Mid-18th century
Johann Georg Schmidt Mid-18th century

Note: Georg Vest, head of the Vest “Dynasty” of potters, was the first potter of note to be listed in Kreussen; he arrived there from Vienna in 1512. Johann Georg Schmidt is generally taken to be the last famous Kreussen potter. He took his own life in 1760.