For sale hand embellished "Cobalt Net" Tea Set - 22 pieces.

　　Made in Imperial Porcelain Manufactory. Cobalt web, the trademark design of the Imperial Porcelain Factory. Its best-known pattern, cobalt net, very first appeared in 1949. The design is based upon a pattern that was repainted into the porcelain dinnerware pieces of Catherine the Great. The brand-new design pattern is a mix of lines of cobalt blue with inverted tear drops of cobalt blue (made from mineral cobalt) and 22 karat gold accents.

　　The Imperial Porcelain Factory is a producer of handpainted ceramics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Many still refer to the manufacturing facility by its well- known former name, Lomonosov Porcelain Factory.

　　Established in 1744, the porcelain manufacturing facility was developed by the order of Empress Elizabeth. The manufacturing plant produced items exclusively for the ruling Romanov family and the Russian Imperial Court. The manufacturing plant has recently begun to produce hand-made copies of porcelain from the variety of Imperial porcelain exhibited in the State Hermitage Museum collection.

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