The Russian porcelain figure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries

Magazine Antiques, March, 2003 by Karen L. Kettering

(8.) [Baron Nikolai fon Vol'f], Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod. 1744-1904 (Izdanie Upravleniia imperatorskimi zavodami, Saint Petersburg, 1906), pp. 87--88, 108-109; and Prilozheniia [Appendices], doc. No. 25,21.

(9.) Klara Tasnadi-Marik, "Russkii farfor v muzee prikladnogo iskusstva v Budapeshte," Acta historiae artium Academiae Sciemarium Hungaricae, vol. 2, fasc. 1--2 (1954), pp. 84-91; and O. A. Sosnina, "K voprosu o khudozh-estvennoi spetsifike farforovoi plastika malykh form. Farforovye file v Rossii XVII veka," in Kuchumovskie chteniia... (Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, 1996), pp.87--89.

(10.) G. Bernard Hughes, "An English Potter's Triumph in Imperial Russia," Country Life, vol. 133, no. 3433 (February 28, 1963), pp. 408--410.

(11.) Martin Eberle, Cris de Paris: Meissener Porzellan figuren des 18. Jahrhunderts/Cris de Paris: Meissen Porcelain Figures in the Eighteenth Century (Gohliser Schlosschen, Leipzig, 2001), pp. 126--127.

(12.) Cited in Nikolai Valenlinovich Chernyi, Farfor Verbilok: Iz istorii russkogo i sovetskogo farfora (Izobra-zitel'noe Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1970), p. 33.

(13.) Msti'slav Vladimirovich Farmakovskii, "Ocherki po istorii russkogo farfora, Kruzhki v vide golovy," Sredi kollektsionerov, vol. 11--12 (1923), pp. 16--21.

(14.) "Kucher 1 Blinnik," Vol'shebnyi fonar', vol. 3 (1817). p. 50.

(15.) Augustus Bozzi Granville, St. Petersburg: Travels to and from that Capital (1828; reprint Arno Press, New York, 1971), Pp. 471--472.

(16.) Despite the importance and popularity of Popov porcelain, them is no monograph on the factory's work. The most complete history is Tat'iana Mozzhukina, "Farfor zavoda Popova: Zapadnoevwpeiskie traditsii i natsional'noe svoeobrazie," in Russkii farfor 250 let istorii, ed. Lidiia V. Andreeva (Avangard, Moscow, 1995), pp. 28--33.

(17.) Karen F. Beall, Kaufrufe und Strassenhadndler. Eine Bibliographie (Hauswedell, Hamburg, 1975), pp. 487--501.

(18.) Chernyi, Farfor Verbilok, p. 108.

(19.) R. E. F. Smith and David Christian, Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1984), pp. 300--303.

(20.) Chernyi, Farfor Verbilok, pp. 125--126. It is today the Dmitrov Porcelain Factory.

KAREN L. KETTERING is the associate curator for Russian art at the Hillwood Museum and Gardens in Washington, D.C.