- Also known as
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Imperial Porcelain Factory
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primary name: Imperial Porcelain Factory
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other name: Leningrad Porcelain Factory
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other name: Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
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other name: State Porcelain Factory
- Details
- organisation; manufacturer/factory; Russian
- Other dates
- 1744- (active)
- Address
- St Petersburg, Russia
- Biography
- Porcelain factory founded by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (q.v.), daughter of Peter the Great (q.v.). Here Dmitri Vinogradov discovered the secret of porcelain, making this factory the first of its kind in Russia and the third in Europe. Various name changes are plotted through the company's history:
1744 - Imperial Porcelain Factory
1918 - State Porcelain Factory
1925 - Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
1936 - Leningrad Porcelain Factory
1993 - Lomonosov Porcelain Factory
2005 - Imperial Porcelain Factory
- Bibliography
- A.K. Lansere, 'Soviet Porcelain. The Artistry of the Lomonossov Porcelain Factory' (Leningrad, 1974)
G. Agarkova & N. Petrova, '250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture, St. Petersburg: 1744-1994' (St. Petersburg, 1994)
'An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain. Dining with the Czars: Peterhof', exhibition catalogue, (New York, 1991)
E. Kirichenko & M. Anikst, 'The Russian Style' (London, 1991)
L. Andreeva, 'Soviet Porcelain 1920-1930' (Moscow, 1975)
N. Lobanov-Rostocsky, 'Revolutionary Ceramics: Soviet Porcelain 1919-1927' (New York, 1990)
