Exhibitions: Exposition “Goods from carved bone of the second half of the XVII – first half of the XIX century” in Pavlovsk

May 23, 2014 at the Museum-Reserve "Pavlovsk" is opening the exhibition "Articles of carved ivory of the second half of the XVIII - early XIX centuries" from the family collection of the Karisalovs and the collection of the State Museum-Reserve "Pavlovsk".

Petersburg masters of the XVIII-XIX centuries were very famous by art carving and lathe. Many of them were natives of Kholmogor and other artistic centers of the Russian North. It is known that Peter I became interested in unusually carved bone after his trip to the North and to Europe.

The construction of the new capital of Russia, Saint-Petersburg, was accompanied by orders for manufacturing splendid smart things for the imperial court, promoting the active development of the fishery. As an ornamental material the bone was also used by Siberian peoples, which made from bone hunting and fishing supplies.