The Factory of Art in Samut Songkhram.
For over fifty years, Pinsuwan Benjarong has kept Thailand's royal five-color porcelain alive the only way it can be kept alive - entirely by hand, by makers who learned it from the makers before them.
A craft passed hand to hand.
Benjarong - "five colors" - was once reserved for the Thai royal court. When the Pinsuwan family lit its first kiln in 1974, the ambition was simple: make it the old way, and make it well enough to last.
The factory in Samut Songkhram is less a production line than a studio. Every piece is drawn freehand, painted dot by dot, and gilded in real gold before firing. The hands change across generations. The standard does not.
This is the heritage that the rest of the Group is built on.
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How a piece is made.
Benjarong cannot be rushed and cannot be printed. The skill passes from one pair of hands to the next - a parent guiding a child's brush until the line holds steady on its own.
Sketching the pattern
The motif is laid out freehand on the bare glaze - lotus, flame, and kranok scrollwork measured by eye, never by transfer.
Hand-painting the five colors
Enamels are built up dot by dot with a fine brush. A single bowl can hold tens of thousands of points of raised color.
Gilding in gold
Real gold outlines and crowns the design, then is burnished so the light moves across every ridge.
Firing the kiln
Each piece is fired in repeated cycles. Heat fuses enamel and gold to the body, and the color is set for generations.
Heirloom porcelain, by category.
Each piece is one of a kind. Browse the traditional range - or commission your own.
