Christmas
Porcelain makes a good gift partly because it dates itself: the factory marks every piece, and the shape and pattern can still be looked up decades later. Everything here is boxed and comes with its factory documents. One practical note — stock is held in Estonia and ships from inside the EU, so a December order wants a few days of margin rather than the last week.
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Cinderella, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00The Ballet series is the work of Lyudmila Tsvetkova, a leading artist and sculptor of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Giselle, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00The series is a Petersburg tribute: the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet stands a few kilometres from the factory.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Nutcracker, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00Marie and her Nutcracker stand beside the tree, from the Hoffmann tale Tchaikovsky turned into the world’s Christmas ballet.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Petrushka, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00Petrushka honours the Stravinsky ballet whose puppet hero became a symbol of the Russian fairground.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Romeo & Juliet, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00Each Ballet piece is decal-decorated and then finished by hand with overglaze paints and gold.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Scheherazade, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00Scheherazade borrows its ornament from the 1910 Ballets Russes production that made Léon Bakst’s oriental palette famous across Europe.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Set Ballet Swan Lake, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$146.00Swan Lake is rendered as stylised swan feathers and interwoven strings of pearls rather than as a scene from the stage.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (Lyudmila Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal finished by hand, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
