Cups & Saucers
A Lomonosov cup and saucer is sold as a pair because the two are made together: the well of the saucer is sized to the foot of the cup that sits in it. The range runs from 100 ml espresso cups to 375 ml breakfast cups, on shapes the Imperial Porcelain Factory has kept in production for decades — Tulip, Idyll, Solo, Natasha. Most are bone china, thin enough to be translucent when held against a lamp, and every pattern is painted by hand.
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Aisedora Swan Lake espresso cup, Isadora, 240 ml
Each Ballet piece is decal-decorated and then finished by hand with overglaze paints and gold.
Shape «Aisedora» (2002, Mikhail Sorokin) · Pattern «Ballet» (L. Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal with hand-painted detailing · 240 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave110.00 € -
Ballet Cinderella espresso cup, May
Swan Lake is rendered as stylised swan feathers with interwoven strings of pearls, rather than as a scene from the stage.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (L. Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal with hand-painted detailing · 165 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave140.00 €Ballet Cinderella espresso cup, May
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Ballet Nutcracker espresso cup, May
Nutcracker sets Marie and her Nutcracker beside the tree, from the Hoffmann tale Tchaikovsky turned into the world’s Christmas ballet.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (L. Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal with hand-painted detailing · 165 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave140.00 €Ballet Nutcracker espresso cup, May
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Ballet Scheherazade espresso cup, May
The Ballet series is the work of Lyubov Tsvetkova, a leading artist and sculptor of the Imperial Porcelain Factory.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Ballet» (L. Tsvetkova)
Bone china · overglaze decal with hand-painted detailing · 165 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave140.00 € -
Cobalt Cell cup & saucer, Tulip, 250 ml
Made in St Petersburg at a manufactory founded in 1744 by decree of Empress Elizabeth — the third-oldest porcelain works in Europe.
Shape «Tulip» (1936, Serafima Yakovleva) · Pattern «Cobalt Cell» (G. Shulyak)
Hard-paste porcelain · decal with hand-painted detailing, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave75.00 € -
Cobalt Cell mug, Leningradsky, 360 ml
The service was never entered for Brussels as a competition piece: it was simply part of the standard range that year.
Shape «Youth» · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Hard-paste porcelain · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 360 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave75.00 € -
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Cobalt Net cup & saucer, Tulip, 140 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Since the 1990s the factory has kept extending the pattern onto new shapes, which is why Cobalt Net now spans everything from espresso cups to serving platters.
Shape «Tulip» (1936, Serafima Yakovleva) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Hard-paste porcelain · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 140 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
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Cobalt Net cup & saucer, Tulip, 250 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Since the 1990s the factory has kept extending the pattern onto new shapes, which is why Cobalt Net now spans everything from espresso cups to serving platters.
Shape «Tulip» (1936, Serafima Yakovleva) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Hard-paste porcelain · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave125.00 € -
Cobalt Net cup & saucer, Yulia, 210 ml
Cobalt Net services are held in the State Hermitage, the Russian Museum and the State Historical Museum.
Shape «Yulia» (2004, Mikhail Sorokin) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Bone china · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 210 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave160.00 € -
Cobalt Net espresso cup, May, 165 ml
The cobalt goes on under the glaze and the gold is finished by hand afterwards, so no two nets come out identically.
Shape «May» (1969, Eduard Krimmer) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Bone china · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 165 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
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Cobalt Net teacup trio, Tulip
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
The cobalt goes on under the glaze and the gold is finished by hand afterwards, so no two nets come out identically.
Shape «Tulip» (1936, Serafima Yakovleva) · Pattern «Cobalt Net» (1944, Anna Yatskevich)
Hard-paste porcelain · hand under- and overglaze cobalt painting, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave155.00 €Cobalt Net teacup trio, Tulip
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Cockerel-combs cup & saucer, Premium, 275 ml
The cockerel is one of the oldest motifs in Russian decorative art, read as a household guardian and a sign of the coming dawn.
Bone china · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
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Flora Smile 2 cup & saucer, Spring, 250 ml
Made in St Petersburg at a manufactory founded in 1744 by decree of Empress Elizabeth — the third-oldest porcelain works in Europe.
Shape «Spring-2» · Pattern «Flora Smile» (2023)
Bone china · overglaze decal, gilding · 230 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave75.00 € -
Gift Roosters cup & saucer, 375 ml
Two roosters facing each other is a symmetrical folk composition, painted here in overglaze colours with hand gilding.
Hard-paste porcelain · 350 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
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Golden Edge teacup trio, Natasha
The shape came out of the factory’s post-Soviet period, when it went back to designing for the domestic table rather than for export quotas.
Shape «Natasha» (1995, Yuri Troitsky) · Pattern «Golden Edge»
Bone china · gold banding applied by hand, brush by brush, over the fired glaze · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave200.00 €Golden Edge teacup trio, Natasha
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Golden Edge teacup, Natasha, 220 ml
The Natasha shape was modelled by Yuri Troitsky, a master modeller of the factory’s highest category; the complete service was finished in 1995.
Shape «Natasha» (1995, Yuri Troitsky) · Pattern «Golden Edge»
Bone china · gold banding applied by hand, brush by brush, over the fired glaze · 220 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave139.00 €Golden Edge teacup, Natasha, 220 ml
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Green Lime cup & saucer, Idyll, 250 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Where the historic patterns are hand-painted, this series uses polychrome overglaze decoration finished with gold — a cleaner, more graphic line that suits the shape.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Green Lime»
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
Indigo cup & saucer, Idyll, 250 ml
The Azure and Scarlet patterns are Yulia Chistyakova’s 2022 reworking of Cobalt Net, traced back through it to Elizabeth’s «Own Service» of the 1750s.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Indigo»
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
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Kalenda teacup and saucer, Idyll, 250 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
The wreath runs low around the cup, so the scarlet ribbon on the saucer rim frames it from below.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Kalenda» (Yulia Chistyakova)
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration with raised enamel, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave105.00 € -
Logo 2 cup & saucer, Heraldic, 220 ml
The cup carries the factory’s own monogram as its decoration — the mark that has identified the works since the imperial period.
Hard-paste porcelain · 220 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
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Lomonosov Imperial Bone China Porcelain Teacup And Saucer Idyll Scarlet V.1 250 Ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Bone china is fired twice and contains bone ash, which is what gives this cup its translucency when held to the light.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Scarlet» (2022, Yulia Chistyakova)
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration (overglaze decal), gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
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Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain Teacup and Saucer Moscow River 220 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Moscow River belongs to the factory’s cityscape decors, in which a topographic view is compressed onto a curved surface.
Hard-paste porcelain · 220 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave
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Rabbit Alice Garden cup & saucer, Idyll, 250 ml
Available to pre-order, about 60 days
Yulia Chistyakova’s Alice Garden hides a message: the carnation stands for love, the bellflower for honesty and the clover for luck.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Alice Garden» (Yulia Chistyakova)
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration, gilding · 250 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave90.00 € -
Scarlet cup & saucer, Idyll, 100 ml
The pattern is applied with a raised-paint technique, so the wreath stands slightly proud of the glaze.
Shape «Idyll» · Pattern «Kalenda» (Yulia Chistyakova)
Bone china · polychrome overglaze decoration with raised enamel, gilding · 115 ml · hand wash only, no dishwasher or microwave70.00 €
