Dulyovo porcelain works is a Russian

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manufacturer based in the

Moscow Oblast Moscow Oblast ( rus, Моско́вская о́бласть, r=Moskovskaya oblast', p=mɐˈskofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ), or Podmoskovye ( rus, Подмоско́вье, p=pədmɐˈskovʲjə, literally "under Moscow"), is a federal subject of Rus ...

. Its products are better known as Dulevo porcelain. The works were founded in the Dulyovo wasteland (now Likino-Dulyovo) in 1832 by merchant Terenti Kuznetsov from

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. Dulevo porcelain factory produced many sets and sculptures during the Soviet period. Designers included Pyotr Vasilyevich Leonov,

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(between 1927 and 1933), Alexey Georgievich Sotnikov, Vladimir Klimentyevich Yasnetsov, Asta Davydovna Brzhezitskaya, Olga Mikhailovna Bogdanova, Evgeniya Ilyinichna Gatilova, and Nina Aleksandrovna Malysheva.History of the Dulevo porcelain factory
/ref> Some designs were created by the Hungarian-born

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, before she fell foul of Stalin. Dulyovo porcelain has gained gold awards at

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s in

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(1937, for Leonov's tea set "Beauty") and

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(1958, for "The Falcon"). In 1976 the factory was awarded the

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