What makes the Lomonosov Factory Unique?
All complicated painted decoration is carried out in porcelain items by free hand painting, while simple graphic patterns are transferred onto items by a multi colored movable transfer tissue made at the Factory and then are finished by painters. A number of articles are decorated, besides over glaze and under glaze painting, in powder gold with the incision of an engraved design. Many services, vases and nearly all animal sculptures are painted in over glaze colors. About ninety percent of the Factory`s entire output is produced of so called “hard- paste” porcelain fired at 1400 C. The animal sculptures decorated with under glaze colours, usually salt solutions of various metals, are made of so called “soft- paste” porcelain fired through a temperature of up to 1300 C. The Lomonosov Factory is the first in the country to have worked out technology and set up production of thin-walled bone china items, which are notable for enhanced whiteness, thinness and transparency in comparison wi
