Vintage Russian Imperial Lomonosov Porcelain Tea / coffee cup and saucer

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Imperial PorcelainMade in RusiaVintageLomonosov FactoryRussia USSR Tea/Coffee Cups & Saucer Set2 pcsLomonosov Porcelain Factory, RussiaIncludes:1 tea/coffee cups 3.750"hight x 3.75"w and 1 saucers 6.24" in diameterHand painted by Russian artisansBears the factory stamp at the bottomHand wash is recommendedEmbellished with 22-karat gold trimSmoke and pet free homeA highly collectible pattern - it is now discontinued. Each piece of this exquisite. It is handmade and hand decorated. The set is in excellent vintage condition with no chips, cracks, crazing. It would be a great addition to any collection.From the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory comes this elegant covered cup and saucer set that harkens back to the days of the Russian Tsars! Each fine porcelain piece is decorated with mineral cobalt blue on a snowy white porcelain and polished to a silken smooth sheen. Versatile and decorative: use to keep beverages hot, make tea, or keep sherbet cold. Enhanced with 22Kt gold. This is a beautiful gift and looks stunning anywhere as well as being utilitarian and functional. Our shop sells only the very top "export-quality" grade of porcelain.The history: For more than two and a half centuries the factory on the banks of the river Neva in St. Petersburg has been at the forefront of high class artistic and utilitarian porcelain. Founded in 174 4 by the daughter of Peter the Great as The Imperial Factory, it belonged for a time to the House of Romanov and the porcelain objects produced were only for the select few. Christoph Conrad Hunger was the first director, who also managed the Vezzi Factory in Venice and gained his experience at Meissen, Vienna. Under his and several successive regimes little was produced besides small articles such as cups and saucers, jugs and snuff boxes for the Tsar and his Court. A commercial sensibility took over in 1763 increasing production, but the factory continued under Imperial control. Two grades of ware were manufactured, one the finest hard paste, the other an off-white variety. Both wares were well glazed. Tableware, vases and splendid figures were produced, both in glazed and in bisque. Decoration evolved from the "Dresden" style -- monochrome landscapes and purple and green flowers with gold or black -- to a later Sevres sensibility with more color and scenes from daily life, landscapes, animals and multi-chrome flowers and birds. The china was marked with the Imperial Russian eagle and with initials and monograms of the rulers, impressed into the porcelain or painted in black or gold. The "Imperial" Factory was also aligned with the Russian Academy of Arts. Nearly 100 years later, the factory became "IFZ" - Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, - or, The Emperor's Porcelain Factory. From Catherine the Great's reign onward (1762), factory marks were the same as initials of the reigning monarch. An additional mark - "II K" - stood for "Pridvornaya Kontora", meaning that the piece formed part of the inventory of the Russian royal court. After the Soviet Revolution in 1917, it was nationalized and once again renamed, this time to the State Porcelain Works, or "GFZ" - Gosudarstvennyi Farforovyi Zavod. On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1925, it was given the name of the academy's founder, Mikhail Lomonosov. Until recently it was known as the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, or "LFZ", and sometimes "The House of Lomonosov" . In 2005, the stockholders of Lomonosov Porcelain Factory passed a resolution to return to their pre-Soviet name, the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory. While this adds to the confusion, it's likely that Lomonosov will be the name of the factory for many years to come. Today, Lomonosov, or Imperial, porcelain can be found in the Hermitage and the Russian Museum, as well as the Palace Museums of Pavlovsk, Petrodvorets and Tsarskoe Selo. In Moscow, pieces can be found in the State Historical Museum and the Ceramics Museum of Kuskovo. The factory even has its own museum, established in 1844, which contains some 20,000 items on exhibits. read more

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