In Radischevskaya Museum (Saratov, Radishchev, 39), an exhibition of porcelain pieces from the museum's collection titled "Porcelain old, brittle, ringing ... history of porcelain production. This exhibition - the second in a series of didactic exhibitions of arts and crafts, designed for a wide range of visitors.

• Royal Porcelain Manufactory
  painting Tayande B.
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The exhibition can be seen examples of major minerals of which is made of porcelain mass, and factory molds china. The exhibited works were received in the collection at different times and from different sources: from the museum's founder AP Bogolyubov, from the State Museum Fund from various private collections.

Porcelain - this is one type of pottery, and part of the exhibition is devoted to such predecessors porcelain, as terracotta, stoneware, majolica and faience. The history of porcelain begins a half thousand years ago in his homeland, China. Chinese and Japanese porcelain of XVIII-XIX centuries. represented in the exhibition. Not knowing the secret of porcelain mass, the Europeans tried to imitate him: Dutch Delft earthenware, white milk glass with enamel painting, the French soft-paste porcelain Sevres Royal Manufactory characterize the period of searching for a recipe of "real", hard porcelain.

Hard porcelain in Europe began to be made with 1710 in the Saxon town of Meissen.

• Royal Porcelain Manufactory
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In 1718 opens the second time of a plant in Vienna. In the middle of the XIX century. at the request of the King of Prussia was founded by one of the most famous porcelain factory in Berlin. In the second half of the XVIII-beginning. XIX century. in Germany there are many private factories in Höchst, Frankenthal, Folkshtedte-Rudolstadt, Wallendorf ...

• Paris, France
  Scenic Studio feuille
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In France in 1768 Royal Manufactory of Sevres also goes to the hard porcelain, but at the end of the XVIII century. in Paris and its suburbs opened dozens of private factories, constituting a strong competitor to the royal manufactory.

first porcelain factory in Russia was founded in 1744 at Elizabeth. This is the famous Imperial Porcelain Factory. IPE, like its predecessors, the plants in Meissen and Sèvres porcelain produced a reference, always featuring a high artistic taste. Since the second half of the XVIII century. in Russia there are private porcelain factories focused on the tastes of not only the upper strata of society, but also the merchants, the petty bourgeoisie and rich peasants.

Petrova Victoria, curator of collections of china

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