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Gardner was a well known porcelain factory established in a small village called Verbilki in the Dmitrov district of Moscow Province, in 1766. They produced high quality services and figurines, competing with the Imperial Porcelain Factory. The founder Francis Gardner studied the production in other European countries to learn how to produce high quality porcelain. During the 19th century a lot of small porcelain factories sprung up across Russia, and Gardner set the production standards for the other factories. Gardner recieved several commissions from noblemen and the imperial court of Russia. In the 1860s, they were asked to recreate the lost objects from a banquet service made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. In the late 19th century the production was no longer profitable and the factory was sold to Matvei Kuznetsov in 1892. In Soviet times the factory was nationalised and renamed after the nearby town of Dmitrov.