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The Imperial Porcelain Factory (Russian: Императорский Фарфоровый Завод, romanized: Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod), also known as the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory (abbreviated as IPM), is a producer of hand-painted ceramics in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Established in 1744 in Saint Petersburg by order of Empress Elizabeth, the daughter of Peter the Great, the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory became the first porcelain works in Russia and the third one in Europe.
Saint Petersburg porcelain, pottery ware produced from 1744 to the present day by the principal Russian factory, the Imperial Porcelain Factory (from 1925, the M.V. Lomonosov State Porcelain Factory), in St. Petersburg.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Part of the internationally renowned Imperial Porcelain Factory, and now run by the State Hermitage Museum, this small, modern collection traces the history of porcelain manufacture in Russia, and contains some of the finest pieces created in the factories 250-year existence.
- 151, Prospekt Obukhovskoi Oborony
- Lomonosovskaya
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The Imperial Porcelain Factory was established in 1744 by the Empress Elizabeth I (r. 1741–61). For several years production was hampered by unreliable or inexperienced workmen, but by the 1750s the factory had begun producing porcelain in the Meissen style.
The IPM museum (at 151, Obukhovskoy Oborony Prospekt) was established in 1844 by decree of Nicholas I as a repository of art pieces worth exploring and replicating. Imperial Porcelain Manufactory official distribution site.
Sep 14, 2018 · The Imperial Porcelain Manufactory (IPM) was founded in 1744 in St. Petersburg. Today in its assortment there are about 4000 thousand items of hard and thin-walled bone china: services and souvenirs, vases, genre and animal sculpture, decorative interior items, as well as museum replicas.
