What French porcelain should I buy?

[imageWIS]

Originally Posted by iammatt

About $1000 for a 5-piece setting.

Nice pattern though.

Jon.

 

[Dmax]

Does anyone know who makes Hermes porcelain?

 

[chorse123]

Originally Posted by Manton

I wanted Limoges, but I got this Russian stuff instead. It's OK, but the teapot looks like the Great Pumpkin.

Lomonosov? It's now renamed as Imperial Porcelain St. Petersburg, I think. We have some which is nice, if unspectacular. The coolest thing about Lomonosov, as far as I'm concerned, is they will do bespoke, and it isn't terribly expensive.

 

[itsstillmatt]

Originally Posted by imageWIS

Nice pattern though.

Jon.

They go way up from there, but generally there is a concurrent rise in the ugliness of the pattern.

Originally Posted by Dmax

Does anyone know who makes Hermes porcelain?

They own a large, perhaps majority, stake in St. Louis and Puiforcat, so I would imagine that Puiforcat makes it, that is if Puiforcat actually makes their own. Nevertheless, it should be to Puiforcat's standard, as that is generally the Hermes business model. They buy top quality companies and then have them produce for Hermes along with continuing to produce under their own name.

 

[LabelKing]

St.Louis makes some nice glassware though one of my favorites is Val St.Lambert. The new stuff isn't that attractive, but the old things are quite nice.

 

[LabelKing]

How about this antique Meissen?

Antique Meissen has alway struck me as extremely Baroque; German Imperial tastes has always been a bit much, I think--French aesthetics combined with German drama.

Originally Posted by chorse123

Lomonosov? It's now renamed as Imperial Porcelain St. Petersburg, I think. We have some which is nice, if unspectacular. The coolest thing about Lomonosov, as far as I'm concerned, is they will do bespoke, and it isn't terribly expensive.
An interesting name, good for marketing no doubt. I believe most of the Imperial services were from Sevres. French taste was the height.

 

[mink31]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

An interesting name, good for marketing no doubt. I believe most of the Imperial services were from Sevres. French taste was the height.

Lomonosov was a Russian Renaissance Man of the 18th century. Among other achievements, he was an accomplished physicist, linguist, chemist and poet. Truly one of the greatest minds.

The Lomonosov Porcelain Factory was named after him. It's now gone back to its original name, "The Imperial Porcelain Factory." They're most famous for their cobalt-blue and gold net-pattern china, copied under Soviet guidance from a service for Catherine the Great.

Incidentally, most of the Imperial Russian porcelain was indeed made in the country, for which the Tsars imported foreign labor and established schools. The French/German stuff was mainly gifts, but no doubt served as inspiration.

 

[RJman]

I didn't realize Puiforcat made porcelain -- I thought they were only an orfevre, producing flatware. I really want to like Saint-Louis' crystal but the designs just don't do it for me.

Does Meissen hand paint their porcelain, and is that why it is so expensive?

 

[Lucky Strike]

Originally Posted by RJman

I didn't realize Puiforcat made porcelain -- I thought they were only an orfevre, producing flatware. I really want to like Saint-Louis' crystal but the designs just don't do it for me. Does Meissen hand paint their porcelain, and is that why it is so expensive?
Puiforcat made their name with some stunning art deco silver, I really like the tea and coffee sets. Meissen is all hand-painted, and very well, too. It's a branding pioneer - the crossed swords mark is a really historic logo. The quality sunk somewhat right after the German unification, but is now better. The communists kept the quality up, and also upped the production, for much needed Western currency.

 

[IndianBoyz]

Puiforcat

 

[Medwed]

Lomonosov is soo cheap now that RUB crashed. I am going to get me some XL plates in cobalt net pattern. They are hand painted to boot.
http://en.ipm.ru/shop/cat/124

 

[IndianBoyz]



Lomonosov is soo cheap now that RUB crashed. I am going to get me some XL plates in cobalt net pattern. They are hand painted to boot.
http://en.ipm.ru/shop/cat/124

Any more information on this house?