Cups & Saucers
Cups and saucers across all the collections, from 165 ml espresso sets to 250 ml cups. Nearly all are bone china — the thin, translucent body the factory is best known for abroad. Sizes are given in millilitres because that is how the factory marks them: 165 ml is about a double espresso, 250 ml a standard breakfast cup. Shapes recur across patterns, so a May-shape cup in Ballet sits beside a May-shape cup in Cobalt Net without looking mismatched.
Cup and Saucer Idyll, Indigo, 250 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$94.00Indigo takes the darkest register of the Idyll series, where the gold reads as warm against a near-black ground.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Indigo»
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration, fired-on gold · 250 ml / 8.5 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Cup and Saucer Idyll, Primula, 250 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$94.00Primula belongs to the Idyll series, designed so that its patterns can be mixed freely on one table.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Primula»
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration, fired-on gold · 250 ml / 8.5 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Cup Cobalt Net, Yulia Shape, 210 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$167.00On the Yulia shape the cobalt is painted under the glaze and then finished by hand with a gold-bearing preparation — no two nets come out identical.
Shape «Yulia» (2004, Mikhail Sorokin) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Bone china · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, fired-on gold · 210 ml / 7.1 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Cobalt Net, May Shape, 165 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$94.00The May shape was the first cup ever cast in the factory’s bone china; it takes its name from the May 1969 batch that opened the bone-china workshop.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Bone china · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, fired-on gold · 165 ml / 5.6 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
Espresso Cup Cobalt Net, Wave Shape, 155 ml – Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain, Bone China
$99.00Cobalt is one of the few pigments that survives the glaze firing above 1400 °C — which is why the blue sits under the glaze and cannot wear off.
Shape «Wave» (Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Bone china · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, fired-on gold · 155 ml / 5.2 fl oz · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
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
