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The Gardner Porcelain Factory was a Russian Porcelain Factory founded by Francis Gardner in 1766. It was established in the village of Verbilki located near Moscow. The factory was successful during the 18th and 19th centuries. In the 1770s it received a commission from Catherine the Great but was sold to M.S. Kuznetsov in 1890.
Verbilki porcelain: Verbilki: Russia: Former Gardner manufactory, Dmitrov porcelain factory 1770: Spode: Stoke-on-Trent: England: Acquired by Portmeirion in 2009 1775: Aynsley China: Longton, Staffordshire: England: Acquired by Belleek Pottery in 1997 1777: Hollóháza Porcelain Manufactory: Hollóháza, Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén County: Hungary ...
Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg (1744–present) Verbilki Porcelain (1766–present), Verbilki near Taldom Gzhel ceramics (1802–present), Gzhel
Verbilki (Russian: Вербилки) is an urban locality (an urban-type settlement) under the administrative jurisdiction of the town of oblast significance of Taldom in Moscow Oblast, Russia. As a municipal division , Verbilki, together with the town of Taldom , another two urban-type settlements ( Severny and Zaprudnya ), and a number of ...
The gallery also specializes in European and American antique jewelry, 18th-century European gold snuff boxes, and antique Russian decorative arts, including silver, enamel, and porcelain, as well as Russian paintings, icons, and furniture. In 1961, A La Vieille Russie moved down the block to 59th Street and remained there for 56 years.
The works of the Imperial Porcelain Factory abound in the former residences of the Russian emperors, such as Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo. Masters from the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin and porcelain painters from the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres were invited to Saint Petersburg, and the kiln chamber was restructured.
When Russia was able to produce their own porcelain, it undercut the high cost of imports from China or Western European producers. Although there have been several periods of disruption in pottery production at Gzhel, quality pottery is once again being produced in both the recognizable blue on white design as well as the more colorful ...
Vampir by Ernst Stöhr. Wurdulac, also spelled wurdalak, verdilak or vurdulak, is a kind of vampire in the Slavic folklore mythology.Some Western sources define it as a type of "Russian vampire" that must consume the blood of its loved ones and convert its whole family. [1]