The Armoury collection of ceramics and glass numbers about 2500 items including the wide spectrum of material modifications - terracotta, majolica, kinds of porcelain: mild, bound and durum; glass (either transparent colourless or coloured), mirrors, articles with Roman mosaics, adornments in the eglomise technique, rock crystal (also in silver and metal frames).

The most part of the collection - about 2000 exhibits - are ceramics, first of all, artistic porcelain. The collection of porcelain was set up in the mid XIX century. The chronological frames of the collection are rather wide, because Moscow Kremlin Museums posess several artworks created in Ancient Greece in the IV century b.c. However, so ancient things are not numerous and the basis of the collection is European and Russian porcelain of XVIII-XX centuries.

The oldest and most eminent firms, such as Meissen and Berli manufactures (Germany), factories of Sèvres, Paris and Limoges (France), English faience, produce of Imperial porcelain factory of Saint-Petersburg and illustrious private factories of Russia, such as Gardner’s, Kornilov brothers’ , Popov’s, Batenin’s and others are presented.

The collection comprises unique monuments creditable to their creators. The brightest artworks are the two gorgeous dinner-sets - The Olympic and The Kremlin’s. The first one was made in 1804-1807 in Sèvres on the order of Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte as a gift to Russian Emperor Alexander I on the occasion of the peace treaty of Tilsit. The second one is the work of Imperial porcelain factory of Saint-Petersburg (1837-1839). It adorned the festive table in the Grand Kremlin Palace during the most pompous Kremlin’s ceremonies.

In distinction from the collection of porcelain, the Moscow Kremlin Museums’ collection of artistic glass is one of the oldest ones that comprises articles of this material in our country. Its forming was started in the late XVIII century. It includes items made in the period of mid XVIII-XX centuries. These masterpieces are unique monuments of particular artistic value, which relate eminent historical events, the forming of European and Russian glass-making and the development of technology. The museum preserves works by Venetian, Bohemian,

German, French, Russian and Chinese masters. The Venetian goblet of Marfa Sobakina (the third Ivan the Great’s wife), effective Bohemian glasses with apostles, splendid artworks of the Peter the Great’s time - the goblet “Themis” devoted to the sea victories of Russia in the Northern war, the glass “The victory in the Poltava Battle” and others are of the most magnificent museum items.