Jewelry atelier of Vasiliy Lipin at Ekaterinburg: forgotten heritage of Ural's jewelers

Particularity of the study of Ural stone-working production for almost a hundred years was the lack of interest for the private entrepreneurial initiative in the industry. As a result, a whole layer of the authors and their works were forgotten. This article is dedicate to analyzes of the documents, identification and analysis of the works of one of the largest stone-cutting and jewelry workshops of Ekaterinburg in the 19-20 centuries what was on enterprise of Vasiliy Lipin. For the first time in this article is published a documented mark of this jeweler and considered his participation in the creation of a mosaic map of France. Consequentially in this article we - Consider by historians studying the problems of the private stone-cutting and jewelry craft at Ekaterinburg, provide information about publications, where was affecting some aspects of this problem, - Analyze the information about the family of Vasiliy Lipin, allowing to conclude that the master was involved to the tradition of generations in colored stone, established in the Urals continuity in the 19^th century, - On the basis of documentary sources and modern publications was studied the assortment of production and some ways of finding buyers and customers, for the first time fully reflects the history of the participation in national and international exhibitions of the Ekaterinburg's workshop production, - On the basis of the identified works are formulated an idea about the kind of produced things, considered the character of the interactions between the private production and Imperial Ekaterinburg's Lapidary Factory, - For the first time we publish the documented mark of Ekaterinburg's jeweler, which is a valuable contribution to the study of the history of Russian jewelry art of the late 19^th-early 20^th centuries. Analysis of the assortment of Lipins's workshop, based on the documentary sources and museum collections, demonstrate the prevailing circle of the created and sold items: small, often associated with writing desk, functional products (jewelry boxes, paperweights, paper knives, stamps) of the well-known Ural's materials (malachite, jasper, rhodonite, transparent quartz as rock crystal or fumed quartz). The observed and documented combination of the marks of Kazan's assay master and Ekaterinburg's jewelry shop will allow to continue the attribution work and permit to next identification of works of Vasily Lipin and greatly enrich our understanding of the extent and nature of the jewelry activities Ural's masters, so often and unfairly placed in the shadow of its St. Petersburg and Moscow contemporaries.

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