Miniature tea and coffee set
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
.132, .133, .135: H. with handle 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm.); .134: H. with handle 1 3/16 in. (3.0 cm.); .136-138: Diam. 2 9/16 in. (6.5 cm.); .139: Diam. 2 5/8 in. (6.7 cm.); .140: H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.); .141ab: H. 3 in. (7.6 cm.); .142ab: H. 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm.); .143: Diam. 2 5/16 in. (5.9 cm.)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
Russian, St. Petersburg
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Garbat, 1961
Accession Number
61.107.132–.143
About the Artist
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg · 1744–present
The Imperial Porcelain Manufactory in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1744 by Dmitry Ivanovich Vinogradov under the decree of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna, marked Russia's entry into porcelain production as the third such enterprise in Europe after Meissen and Vienna. Vinogradov, a mining engineer educated in Saxony, developed the nation's first hard-paste porcelain formula using local materials, drawi...