Four artefacts of the nineteenth century are donated to our museum by Olga and Alexander Borisov, members of the Tsarskoe Selo Friends Society. One jewellery box and three blue jasperware vases of great artistic value were specially obtained as gifts to Tsarskoe Selo.

The lacquered wood box with a painted 'Peter (the Great) in a Storm at Lake Ladoga' scene on the lid is marked as produced by the Vasily O. Vishnyakov Factory in Ostashkovo Village near Moscow in the 1880s. Larger than the factory's typical products, it was probably made to commemorate Emperor Peter the Great's 160th death anniversary. Based on a true story of Peter's boating skills saving several people during a storm, the painted scene was a popular subject on Russian pieces of decorative and applied arts.

The subject was used in a 1812 painting by French artist Charles de Steuben (1788‒1856), whose composition was later copied in engravings, tapestries, clocks, etc. The painting on the lid was inspired by Peter I's Feat in a Storm (1832) by Alexander von Kotzebue, which was a reduced copy after Charles de Steuben. The box's painter slightly changed the composition, faces, colours, clothing details, waves  and clouds, and did not depict birds.

A gold embossing inside the lid of the box depicts a crown with a ribbon and three medals of Russian trade fairs of 1870, 1872 and 1882.

The three donated vases were made in Germany at Villeroy & Boch and decorated with white pâte-sur-pâte ('paste on paste') multi-figure compositions based on ancient Greek mythology. Two of the vases are paired, their relief decorations referring to  the Trojan War. Similar vases are showcased at the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in California.

The signature JStahl 97 makes it possible to date the paired vases to 1897 and attribute them to Jean-Baptiste Stahl (1869–1932). He was an artist at Villeroy & Boch and the creator of the Phanolith, a kind of porcelain combining the characteristics and benefits of pâte-sur-pâte and Wedgwood jasperware. Developed in the 1770s, the latter's influence on Stahl also reveals from the blue ware and white reliefs. Stahl's Phanolith and reliefs gained him success at the World's Fair 1900 in Paris.