The famous miniature and enamel painter Isaak Jakob Clauce takes over as the head of the painting department at Wegely.

The Third Silesian War, referred to by historians as the Seven Years' War, breaks out. Frederick II needs his money for less pleasant objects than porcelain from Wegely's company, of which he was a major client. The Prussians occupy Meissen along with its porcelain workshop. The warehouses seized in Dresden, Leipzig and Meissen satisfy the royal requirement for porcelain for the moment. Whatever is left over is sold at a low price to the supplier to the royal army, Heinrich Karl Schimmelmann. As a precaution, Wegely has his rights reconfirmed by the king, and receives permission to visit the Meissen production facilities on Albrechtsburg.

Neither privileges nor plant espionage can save Wegely from impending bankruptcy. He liquidates his factory and sells the stocks, tools and materials to the Berlin entrepreneur Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky.

The Seven Years' War is in its fifth year. Silk merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky founds a porcelain production company in Berlin. On 11 January 1761, Gotzkowsky concludes a contract with Ernst Heinrich Reichard, the former Wegely employee who is in possession of the arcanum. According to the contract, Reichard receives 4,000 Reichstaler for the arcanum, 3,000 for the porcelain inventory and other materials, and he is offered a job with Gotzkowsky as the arcanist and department head. At the beginning of the same year, Gotzkowsky purchases the Dovillesche House in Leipziger Straße, which is next to his own property, and begins to construct a factory there. The production company will remain there for over 100 years in spite of its potentially unfavourable location: far from the Spree River, which, as a waterway and provider of hydraulic power and extinguishing water, would have made production and transport much cheaper. Also in 1761, Gotzkowsky employs Friedrich Elias Meyer, a student of Kändler in Meissen, as the chief modeller and Carl Wilhelm Boehme as the director of porcelain painting.