About Us

Overview

For over 200 years, Pfaltzgraff has shaped American homes with beautifully crafted ceramics, symbolizing quality, design, and innovation.

The company grew from a modest pottery shop producing simple earthenware, salt-glazed stoneware crocks, and flower pots into one of America’s best-known designers and marketers of dinnerware, drinkware, flatware, and giftware.

Several Pfaltzgraff patterns are among America’s most beloved dinnerware designs, including Winterberry, Villa della Luna, Yorktowne, and Trellis.

Our History

The Pfaltzgraff family immigrated to the United States in the early 1800s and established a small potter’s wheel and kiln on their modest twenty-one-acre homestead in York County, Pennsylvania.

The earliest Pfaltzgraff market was defined as “as far as you can get with a horse and wagon and then get back home the same day.”

As the Pfaltzgraff brothers expanded their potteries and business horizons, the Industrial Revolution was transforming the United States from a farm-based society into an urban, manufacturing-driven economy.

In 1889, George and Henry Pfaltzgraff created a partnership that would grow into the Pfaltzgraff Company.

Our First Factory

In 1894, brothers Henry B. and George B. Pfaltzgraff joined forces to build a modern plant designed to streamline production.

The facility was located along a railway line, enabling the company to ship its products to customers across a much wider geographic area.

Before then, a Pfaltzgraff potter’s market had been limited to the distance a horse and wagon could travel while still returning home within a single day.

The historic photograph shows factory employees gathered around a boxcar, with the factory visible behind them. George W. Pfaltzgraff, son of George B. Pfaltzgraff, stands in the boxcar doorway on the right. He would later play a key role in the company’s twentieth-century expansion.