Early RUSSIAN Porcelain Large Shell Shape Cup - ST PETERSBURG Imperial Factory 2

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Early RUSSIAN Porcelain Large Shell Shape Cup - ST PETERSBURG Imperial Factory 2:
$310.84

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One of two on sale individually. Some wear to gilding, handle restuck, large restored chip to foot. This is originally from Lord Bloomfields house, Loughton House in Offaly, Ireland. To the base is the remains of a paper label with initials HT for Henrietta Trench (one of the Trench\'s of Loughton), sister of the Earl of Clancarty.

Approx 11.8 cm wide including handle.

The Imperial porcelain factory was founded in 1744 and was the first porcelain manufactory in Russia. It was created by order of Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, to \"serve native trade and native art\".The factory produced wares exclusively for the ruling Romanov family and the Russian Imperial court. Attempts to reveal the secret of hard paste true porcelain-making had expanded to Russia since the visit of Peter the Great to Saxony in 1718; there, he saw Meissen porcelain at the Dresden court. A talented mining engineer Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov, who studied metallurgy at Freiberg, Saxony, invented the formula for the Russian porcelain works established in 1744.

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