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Russian Porcelain Coffee Pot Styles

For centuries Russians bought high quality porcelain from China and Germany. Imported porcelain was very expensive. In the beginning of the 18th century Peter the Great attempted to organize the production of Russian porcelain but under his rule these attempts were unsuccessful. Only under the rule of Czarina Elisabeth, his daughter, in 1744, the fist Russian porcelain factory was founded under the patronage of her royal majesty

  1. The Royal Porcelain Factory

    • The Royal Porcelain Factory established creative connections with the Russian Academy of Fine Arts. The end of the 18th century was marked by the appearance of the new guild of artists, so-called "porcelain decorative artists." The artists worked directly at the Royal Porcelain Factory.

    Gardner Porcelain

    • In 1814 Gardner Porcelain Factory became the leader of porcelain art and trade. The factory produced porcelain coffee sets with the caricatures on Napoleonic army.

    Porcelain Landscapes

    • The miniatures on the porcelain coffee sets in the1820s depicted Russian landscapes. They were basically the decorative paintings of Saint Petersburg's parks and palaces.

    20th Century Porcelain

    • In 1913 the Russian porcelain factories produced coffee sets exclusively for the emerging class of Russian bourgeoisie. They depicted in highly stylized fashion the life of "Boyars," the Russian ruling elite before Peter the Great.

    Soviet Porcelain

    • After the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, in the Roaring Twenties, the Russian Futurists and Suprematists took over the artwork. They started designing tea and coffee pots for the Soviet Government Porcelain Factory. In 1923 the Soviet factory produced its first coffee set called "Suprematism."

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