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In the 1780s, Catherine the Great commissioned a large service from the Gardner Factory for the new palace built by Charles Cameron in Pavlovsk. The service was called the “Moscow Service” (because t...
The Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna Service was manufactured between 1795 and 1797 for the marriage of the eldest daughter of Paul I to Archduke Joseph Anton of Austria in 1799. Designed in the Neoc...
The first decorative plates depicting Russian regiments were manufactured at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St Petersburg in the early 1820s. Several series of plates dedicated to such military ca...
The Guriev Service was created at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St Petersburg between 1809 and 1816. The project was headed by local sculptor Stepan Pimenov. The first official state service crea...