5: History of the Museum. "The Cabinet of Exemplary Products" II

This room contains exhibits from the museum's auxiliary teaching collection that was created to aid the factory's craftsmen. The collection includes Chinese and Japanese porcelain, Italian majolica and Delft faience. Here too one can find items from private Russian factories and works from the celebrated European centres - Sevrés, Meissen, Berlin, Vienna and Copenhagen - received as gifts or purchased abroad. The stocks of artistic glass include, beside remarkable works by Russian masters, examples of the output of the foremost European glassmakers: Emile Galle. the Daum brothers and Ernest Leveillé.