European Porcelain in Russian Regional Collections: Attribution Problems

For the most part, museum network of modern Russia formed in first decades USSR. At time, works from nationalized collections considerable size were distributed on a large scale and somewhat chaotically among already existing mostly capital museums newly created regional ones. This factor had significant impact formation composition collections, seriously affected specifics registering items such as those made porcelain peculiarities specialists’ access to them. Thus, collection Western European production Ekaterinburg Museum Fine Arts has around two hundred items. Despite relatively modest number, it will nevertheless help one get sufficiently acquainted with main trends development countries between eighteenth half twentieth centuries. The history its demonstrates replenishment Soviet years. many decades, namely, moment establishment 1936 until early 2010s, question remained practically unstudied, which was largely due lack specialists characteristic that well low availability sources for comparing typologizing stored collections. Referring Arts, article considers problems associated study porcelain: fragmented provenance artworks transferred museum’s development; complex format working private socio-political system state did not welcome collecting; insufficient attention marks artworks, can confuse an inexperienced researcher, and, result, urgent need updating addition currently reference books.