Fairytale Coffee Cup w/ Saucer

This wonderful, collectible coffee cup and saucer set is produced by Imperial Porcelain Factory, a trend-setter in the world of fine porcelain for several centuries and today, accepted to be one of the world's premiere fine china producers. Furthermore, the set was painted with the design, created by Aleksey Vorobyovsky, who had worked in Imperial Porcelain for over sixty years. This great master is responsible for over fifteen hundred designs, many of which are now parts of several museum collections, including the Hermitage, the Russian National Museum, the Kuskovo Estate, the Ariana Museum of Ceramic and Glass Art in Geneva, Switzerland, and many other public and private collections.

Being a very closely guarded secret in China, it is said that the Chinese described bone china as follows: "It is as white as nephrite jade, as thin as paper, as sparkling as a mirror, and as melodious as a dulcimer." The secret of making such porcelain remained with the Chinese for more than a thousand years, when it was finally discovered by the Europeans. Even then, such exquisite and rare items were only found in palaces of the Europe's royalty. Over two-and-a-half centuries later, Russia's Lomonosov Porcelain Factory (now bearing its original name of Imperial Porcelain Factory) was able to discover their own process and formula for producing bone china. Today, the Imperial Porcelain Factory remains the sole bone china producer in Russia.