Stoneware Vessels from the Territory of Summer Garden in St.-Petersburg (on Materials of the Archeological Excavations in 2009-2011)
There was a huge collection (more than 5 thousand) of archeological finds gathered during the excavations in Summer Garden in St.-Petersburg in 2009-2011 and among them were 49 fragments of various stoneware vessels. The biggest part of the collection was formed of 33 pieces of mineral water bottles from the XVIII-XIX centuries, also there were 10 fragments of decorative tableware from Westerwald of XVII - beginning of XVIII cent., 2 fragments of small bottles of balsam (the end of the XIX - beginning of the XX century) of local production and some individual fragments of difficult-attributed things. This collection of stoneware vessels reflects the late period of this craft, when the mineral water bottle became a prevailing type (one could trace the changing of shape of bottle through two centuries) and the production of luxurious tableware gradually disappeared.