Vintage Tea Set, Tea Pot, 1960 Russian Porcelain

  

Vintage tea set for 2 persons. Perfect vintage condition - no chips or ckracks.

Francis Gardner, an English timber merchant, settled in Russia in 1746 and, after twenty years in the timber trade, founded, on March 7, 1766, Russia's first privately owned porcelain factory near the village of Verbilki, the Dmitrov uezd, Moscow gubernia. However, the Verbilki masters often broke faith with the foreign styles in porcelain and tinted this manufacture with specifically Russian taste and artistic tradition, thus giving it a peculiarly national colour. When, after the 1917 October Revolution, the factory was nationalized, and given the name of the Dmitrov Porcelain Plant, it kept for a while in the mainstream of the pre-revolutionary forms and its decor was constricted to floral motifs. In 1938 an art laboratory was organized at the plant to enhance the artistic worth of the produce, and sculpture production was launched, in which the contribution of Sergei Orlov was fairly significant. It continued undisturbed until the Great Patriotic War when the production of art pieces came to halt.

In the post-war years the Dmitrov Plant developed into an advanced industrial enterpriseAn emphasis was placed on a higher quality of the produce: the art laboratory enrolled skilled painters and sculptors with a long standing in the field. As a result, the output grew apace, and now all new samples are considered and approved by the Artistic Council.