Porcelain products in the interior: Desktop miniature, sculpture of small shapes from lace porcelain, collection dolls and porcelain panels
Porcelain traditional satellite celebrations and family dinners. A rare material can compete with it for beauty, festivity and nobility. Realistic and abstract desktop miniature, sculpture of small shapes from lace porcelain, collection dolls and porcelain panels - these unusual accents will help to make picturesque every corner of your home.
Porcelain material, perfectly suitable for creating small decorative plastic. Genuine porcelain (this is produced in China with deep antiquity) - solid glazed from white burned clay with special impurities. It is translucent and has a non-porous structure. Soft (low-melting) - early species of European porcelain. From it, as a rule, an animalistic sculpture is performed on the composition. One of the types of soft porcelain, in the manufacture of which bone ash is added to the mass. Such figures are characterized by white, subtlety and sophistication of forms. The product from the burned porcelain mass, not covered with icing and having a matte rough surface, is called biscuit.
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Photo by E. Morgunova | 
Royal Crown Derby. | 
Villa D este. |
Herend. | 
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Herend. | 
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1.Artistic sculpture "Zebra". "Imperial Porcelain Plant" (Russia). Price - 3170rub.
2. The bags. LFZ (Russia). The variety of products of the LFZ can be determined by the color of the stamp stamp on the turn. Black stigma-top grade, red - 1st. The price is 1200 and 600 rubles. Accordingly (Gallery "Grandma").
3. Chances in a bone porcelain case. Royal Crown Derby (United Kingdom).
4. Farm supports for the knife and forks are used to not pack the tablecloth.
5. Farm Decor Herend (Hungary).
6.Statuette from the biscuit ("Imperial Porcelain Plant").
7. Other funny figures came to the challenge of China's china elephant.
8.Culpture "Akhmatova". Manual casting, supervised hand painted. Sculptor-Natalia Danko, author of painting - Elena Danko. 60-70-TSG. Hchw. ("Imperial Porcelain Plant").
Opinion of a specialist
The quality of the porcelain is not difficult to determine the touch. Good china has a specific smooth surface, which depends on the spill of the glaze. Another sign of high-quality porcelain is a living color. After all, he may be, for example, a dazzling white, but dead. St. Petersburg porcelain with a slightly bluish tint, the Vienna - the colors of the filmed milk, Sevrassky, and a false. Inacontal, porcelain should carry style features. Today in Europe there are many factories that produce trendy products of mass demand. But only some of them follow the old traditions of the Berlin, Vienna, Sevra, Maissen, Herendskaya Manufactory and, of course, such an enterprise as the "Imperial Porcelain Plant" (LFZ 1925-2005) in St. Petersburg.
Alla Fadyushina, Director of the Department of Retail Sales
Moscow branch of the company "Imperial Porcelain Plant"
Sculptural compositions from porcelain in Europe in the XVI-XVIII centuries. Decorated dessert tables. Interestingly, before these decorative groups were made of sugar and wax, so first porcelain sculptures were like them in color and were biscuitful imitation of classical marble statues. The design of desktop sculptures, accompanying palace services, gradually became more complicated, and they were already whole ensembles with scenes from the life of the aristocracy. Following the European fashion, in Russia in 50-hgg. XVIIIV They began to produce small plastic on the imperial porcelain factory in St. Petersburg. This porcelain in quality was not inferior to Saxon, and according to the composition of the mass prepared from domestic raw materials, approached Chinese. Today, enterprises specializing in artistic products from porcelain develop traditions of classic Russian porcelain industries.
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Meissen. | 
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9. "Goalkeeper". Porcelain, an impellent painting. Plant of artistic ceramics G.Polonny. Price, 2 thousand rubles.
10. Fayans head girl. Europe. 50-Russia. Hchw. Price - 3 thousand rubles.
11. On each product is the signature of the master and the factory brand. They confirm the authenticity of the subject manually. Meissen (Germany).
12. The complex porcelain composition is interconnected by a liquid porcelain mass. Royal Copenhagen (Denmark). ("Our house").
Small modern figures from the porcelain are thematically extremely varied. These are the characters of the myths and the Italian comedy del Arte, desktop portrait busts, animal images, models of well-known monuments, genre and allegorical compositions, pastoral. Doves of the Masters of the famous European Manufactures (Maissen, Sevra, Herendskaya, Dresden IDR) are reproducing vintage porcelain figurines.
The value of the porcelain product determine the quality of the material, the form, beauty and originality of the painting, the state of the subject and the presence of factory stigma. The quality of porcelain mass can be evaluated independently. Try to do so that the white surface reflects the sunlight.
Royal Copenhagen. | 
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13. The high level of plastic refutes the idea of the porcelain statuette as a bass.
14.The point of irony and elegance in decorative statuettes I Buonanno (Alessi, Italy). Price - 1430 rub. for 1pc. Decorative Figure Wizard Mago Sterlino (Alessi). Price, 1200rub. for 1pc. (DesignBoom).
15. Well, a modest porcelain statuette fascinates with its plasticity ("Imperial Porcelain Plant").
If you do not see any defect or inclusion, you really have a really elite china. Therefore, china is rarely found, completely covered with painting, the advantages of the so-called white body (white surface) should be visible.
Careful appeal
The word "porcelain" is associated with the subject of fragile and old. Overall statuettes from it were given in a sign of special manifestation of feelings. There was a tradition to give on the days of large holidays a figure for a good memory. Elegant statuettes in such cases resembled the subtleties of feelings requiring respect for respect. They were stored in the lockers, slides under the glass. Until now, failed to accurately determine whether this material is exposed to aging. It has been proven that over time he does not lose such qualities as density, strength, shine and translucency. Porcelain is not subject to corrosion, unresponsible to acids and alkalis contained in household chemicals. It is easy to care for it, it is enough to use conventional water with soap or a small amount of vinegar. Porcelain figurines are better to wash manually, applying the most non-aggressive soap (for example, child), and then it is worth wiped them with a soft cloth. If the figure has a wooden base, let's get wet.
Royal Crown Derby. | 
Royal Crown Derby. | 
Royal Copenhagen. | 
Villeroy Boch. |
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Casa Bella | 
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16-19. Stattails almost never buy babies and rarely put in children. Despite this, many miniatures are devoted to children. Perhaps older people acquire them, remembering the happy period of their lives (in the days of their childhood, the porcelain decor was in fashion).
20.culture "Giraffe with a raised head" ("Imperial Porcelain Plant"). Price - 1970rub.
21. Common uncomplicated monkeys - holders for books. Casa Bella (Spain).
22. Interior author's doll from the glazed porcelain. The doll is made in the style of the era of LouisXIV: Thin hands and long brushes, the refinement of parts ("Puppet Gallery Vakhtan").
23.Bashmachock made of milk glass. North America. 50-Russia. Hchw.
At all stages (creating a model, painting and glazing) porcelain figurines are produced manually. The complex products are usually cast in parts, which are then connected to one unit. In the manufacture of lace porcelain, real laces of cotton fabric are used, soaked in porcelain mass. Wati "Raw" Porcelain Lace "Dress Up" figures. When firing cotton laces burn, and extraordinary porcelain lace dresses remain. Uneven spots that can sometimes be seen on the surface of the porcelain, the result of the features of the firing process. They are not considered to be withdrawn.
Opinion of a specialist
Start collecting porcelain - a particular moment. Collectors become spontaneously or consciously, and this lesson needs to give part of his soul. Choose a specific topic to collect. My collection of Porcelain Animalistic LFZ (Leningrad Porcelain Plant) began with an old bunny donated by grandfather. Then I wanted Soviet porcelain figurines of boys and girls. And now I collect unusual for Russia porcelain ladies in the first half of the twentieth century. These elegant semi-imaging were once quite functional: they turned into the needles in the hands of their owners in the needle, screwed down the pudrenins and rugs, the lamps (for this we were tightened with metal frames), brushes and many other useful items.
Anna Yusupova, director of Gallery "Grandma"
Porcelain figurines of different plants differ in plots, shape and colorfulness. The name of the porcelain producer speaks not only about quality, but also about the style of the product. You can learn the manufacturer by stigma. Corporate stamps put on products before covering it with icing. Porcelain products are decorated with an adequate and under-cordical painting. Paints are applied to the crude shaft; They are more durable, as they are protected from the top with the glaze, but their palette is limited. Opponent paints have a more extensive color gamut. Many ceramic paints in the firing change their color, which provides additional opportunities for porcelain painting. Decal also apply for product design. This is a translated picture, printed by ceramic paints on a gummed paper and covered on top of a special varnish. When firing already decorated figures, the film burns out, and the paints are sintered with the icing, and the picture remains on the surface of the porcelain.
Porcellane Principe. | 
Meissen. | 
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"Atelier Laura Selignac" |
24.ampa "Lady with Cabdow". Porcellane Principe (Italy). Price, from 27700 rub. (Bierhaus).
25.Farfor reveals the inherent properties: the monumentality of architecture, the expressiveness of the sculpture and the color of painting.
26.Damsky torso (needle) from porcelain. Germany. 20-30-TG. Hchw.
27.Cattle for secrets from the Limoges Porcelain. ("Accents").
Literature was a great influence on small porcelastic plastic: in one time the images of Frant and Modnitz appeared, illustrations from popular novels were reproduced. Modern porcelain miniatures most often are the models of the ideal world. Impeccable people in idyllic situations - winning theme. Paradoxically, but the fact: the rapid plots miniature, the more you buy them.
The editorial board thanks the company DesignBoom, "Imperial Porcelain Plant", Bierhaus, "Puppet Gallery Vakhtanov", Gallery "Grandma", Salon "Accents" for help in the preparation of material and Flamant Salon, as well as the hope of a chart for helping.