Item #1118 Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg). I. Popova E. Ivanova.
Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg)
Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg)
Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg)
Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg)

Farfor chastnykh zavodov Sankt-Peterburga (Porcelain of Private Factories of St. Petersburg)

St. Petersburg: Rus muz, 2008. Sewn cl. The Batenin Porcelain Factory produced elegant works from 1815 to the late 1830s. The factory’s artists painted on their vases, large cups, and tea pots palaces and street scenes of St. Petersburg, bouquets of flowers, military scenes in Empire style, and traditional oriental scenes for the abiding vogue of chinoiserie. Less elaborate than the works of the Imperial Porcelain Factory, the Batenin pieces were representative of a middle-class market for handsome works of decorative art that were not as costly as those of the Imperial Porcelain Factory or Western European manufacturers. A fire of 1838 curtailed the factory’s operation. The Kornilov Brothers inherited the middle class market from the Batenin Factory, producing porcelain from the 1830s to 1917. They earned the designation of purveyor to the court. As the nineteenth century passed, the history of the factory illustrates the changing conditions of the porcelain market and the standards in the applied arts; the Kornilovs’ work was evaluated at exhibitions, such as the Paris World’s Fair of 1867, and the Kornilovs lost their status with the court in 1870. The varying their wares--mundane figures, such as fish-mongers and butchers, idealized landscapes and scenes of the Imperial capital, floral designs with gilded background--reflect the alternating tastes in decorative art during the nineteenth and early twentieth century. The factory’s lot after the 1917 revolution testifies to the tenuous situation of a private business under the communist regime: the Kornilovs were for a time arrested, and their factory was forced to merge with a state enterprise. 208 pp., 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 ins., 4 b-&-w illus., 251 color, sewn cl., Rus. Item #1118

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