The factory of the Gulin brothers

Porcelain

The factory of the Gulin brothers

The private porcelain plant of the Gulins is one of the large porcelain and fuel and power industries of the Gzhel ceramic district of the first half of the 19th century.Founded in 1814 by the peasant of the village of Fryazino Bogorodsky district of the Moscow province Vasily Gulin, from the end of the 1820s to the mid-1840s he belonged to his sons.The company lasted until 1857 and played a leading role in the development of Gzhel porcelain. The Gulin plant produced porcelain, earthenware and majolica.Tea and coffeeware, inkwells, vases, candlesticks were decorated with a relief, polychrome overshoot painting and seal, and cobalt and gold were often used, flower motifs prevailed.The influence of large factories: the imperial and Gardner, as well as the general artistic orientation of that era, affected the forms and decor.