Editing Porcelain (section)

==== Russian porcelain ====
In 1744, [[Elizabeth of Russia]] signed an agreement to establish the first porcelain manufactory; previously it had to be imported. The technology of making "white gold" was carefully hidden by its creators. [[Peter the Great]] had tried to reveal the "big porcelain secret", and sent an agent to the Meissen factory, and finally hired a porcelain master from abroad.<ref>[http://www.kstu.ru/article.jsp?id_e=78453&id=5657 History of Russian inventions. Porcelain. (In Russian).]</ref> This relied on the research of the Russian scientist [[Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov]]. His development of porcelain manufacturing technology was not based on secrets learned through third parties, but was the result of painstaking work and careful analysis. Thanks to this, by 1760, [[Imperial Porcelain Factory, Saint Petersburg]] became a major European factories producing tableware, and later porcelain figurines.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://bestwonderstore.com/2020/07/09/history-of-russian-porcelain-from-its-origins-to-the-present-day/ |title=History of Russian porcelain: from its origins to the present day. |access-date=2020-09-23 |archive-date=2020-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201001205943/https://bestwonderstore.com/2020/07/09/history-of-russian-porcelain-from-its-origins-to-the-present-day/ |url-status=usurped }}</ref> Eventually other factories opened: Gardner porcelain, [[Dulyovo porcelain works|Dulyovo]] (1832), Kuznetsovsky porcelain, Popovsky porcelain, and [[Gzhel]].{{Citation needed|date=March 2022}}

During the twentieth century, under Soviet governments, ceramics continued to be a popular artform, supported by the state, with an increasingly propagandist role.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Lobanov-Rostovsky |first=Nina |date=1989 |title=Soviet Propaganda Porcelain |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/1503986 |journal=The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts |volume=11 |pages=126–141 |jstor=1503986 |issn=0888-7314}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Crichton-Miller |first=Emma |title=The tale of Russia's revolutionary ceramics {{!}} Blog {{!}} Royal Academy of Arts |url=https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-the-tale-of-russias-revolutionary-ceramics |access-date=2022-03-03 |website=www.royalacademy.org.uk}}</ref> One artist, who worked at the [[Baranovsky Porcelain Factory]] and at the [[Experimental Ceramic and Artistic Plant i|Experimental Ceramic and Artistic Plant]] in Kyiv, was [[Oksana Zhnikrup]], whose porcelain figures of the ballet and the circus were widely known.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Porcelain Pop Art by Oksana Zhnikrup |url=http://en.uartlib.org/exclusive/porcelain-pop-art-by-oksana-zhnikrup/ |access-date=2022-03-02 |website=Ukrainian Art Library |language=en-US}}</ref>