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Mug

Gardner Factory
Creation period
19th century
Dimensions
11х10х9 cm
Technique
porcelain, firing, underglaze
Exhibition
6
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Gardner Factory
Mug
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Tea started to be consumed on a massive scale in Russia in the first half of the 17th century. Porcelain gradually became an integral part of Russian tea drinking. The porcelain mug from the collection of the Arzamas museum belonged to Alexander Stupin, the founder of the first provincial school of painting, an artist and a teacher from Arzamas. 

As far back as 1618, Chinese envoys gifted a few crates of tea to Tsar Michael Romanov. According to some recollections, this is how Fiodor Baikov, a statesman and traveller of the 17th century, drank it in 1654: ‘tea boiled with cow’s milk and butter’; this matter-of-factness could make one ‘conclude that Baikov was talking about something quite well-known’. 

In Russia, tea became popular primarily as a medicinal beverage, and soon people started to drink it for pleasure as well. By the middle of the 17th century, it had become possible to buy up to 10 varieties of tea in Moscow. In 1679, the government signed an agreement with China on regular shipments of the drink. All the tealeaves imported from the Orient went to Moscow where they were sold together with other goods, and despite the high price, a lot of people were willing to buy tea. 

Tea consumption was rising rapidly in Russia. By the 19th century, it was drunk by people from all the social strata. The statistics for 1830–1840 revealed that in the regions where tea was drunk in larger volumes people consumed smaller quantities of strong alcoholic drinks.
Tea drinking in rich noble, merchant and bourgeois families always involved porcelain ware. Russian porcelain also referred to pieces of pottery and majolica produced in Russia from the middle of the 18th century. Art historians consider this period to be one of the most important in the Russian decorative arts. The principal supplier of porcelain was the Imperial Porcelain Factory opened in the capital in 1744.
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In 1960 the Arzamas museum added to its collection the porcelain mug gifted to Alexander Stupin on his name day. It was produced at the factory established by Francis Gardner, a Russified merchant from Scotland, who started private manufacture of porcelain in Russia in 1766.
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The factory was situated in a small village called Verbiltsy (today’s Verbilki) in the Dmitrovsky District of the Moscow Governorate. Gardner placed the coat of arms of Moscow on his items. Besides exclusive orders intended for courtiers and aristocrats, the Scotsman also launched large-scale porcelain manufacturing. His ware was of high quality, on a par with Meissen china, the first European porcelain. 

In the late 18th century, Gardner handed the factory over to his son Frantz Gardner. For 126 years from the day when it opened, the factory was run by a few generations of the descendants of Gardner Senior. 

The factory is still in operation, but now it is called Farfor Verbilok (Porcelain of Verbilki). The legendary factory preserves the traditions of pre-revolutionary porcelain-making and employs old methods for its ware.
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Mug

Gardner Factory
Creation period
19th century
Dimensions
11х10х9 cm
Technique
porcelain, firing, underglaze
Exhibition
6
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