The pattern "Cobalt net": Russian porcelain traditions

The pattern "Cobalt net" is famous and recognizable all over the world. This exquisite combination of deep blue and snow-white is used for services, tea pairs, and lunch sets. Decorated with cobalt mesh dishes suitable for serving tables at the most solemn events.

The embodiment of simplicity, elegance and some unobtrusive, but unconditional solemnity - the main distinguishing features of the ornament. It looks really stylish and expensive.

History

For the first time this painting appeared on porcelain in 1945. Today it is a trademark of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, whose masters were invented and created. The author of the pattern "Cobalt net" - artist Anna Yatskevich. Services with such a list on LFZ began to be issued immediately after the victory in the war. The first test was in a different color, but a year later, Yatskevich won his pattern in a new way, creating the same cobalt painting. The tea set "Tulip" became the first in the series. Experts today are sure that the white-cobalt ornament and the refined form of the tulip make up an astonishingly beautiful union.

The artist was inspired by the dishes of the imperial court, decorated with exquisite cobalt. Although there is evidence that its subsequently famous service was originally gold. The "Own" service, made in the middle of the 18th century for the Empress Elizaveta Petrovna by master Dmitry Vinogradov, the founder of the Russian school of porcelain, played its role.

Cobalt pencil

Once on ЛФЗ unusual pencils of manufacture of factory "Сакко and Ванцетти" have brought. The core of the pencil was paint for porcelain painting.

The plant's designers tried, but did not appreciate the novelty. And only Anna Yatskevich liked the new pencil. She decided to master the technology and painted them her first service "Cobalt Mesh". Today not all researchers believe in this version, but that copy of the service is still in the exposition of the Russian Museum.

By the way, the authorship of Yatskevich belongs to another unusual pattern - the corporate monogram of the Lomonosov Porcelain Factory, which the plant brands its products today.

Prestigious victory

In 1958, the Cobalt Net was awarded a high award. At the World Exhibition in Brussels, a tea service was presented. It is noteworthy that it was not specially made for the international presentation, and was at that time included in the assortment of the plant, which did not refer to exclusive things, but to consumer goods. But the more valuable his victory is - the gold medal. By that time Anna Yatskevich was no longer alive. She never found out about the triumph of her creation.

The pattern "Cobalt net" in contemporary art

Ornament of dark blue color does not lose its relevance in our days. Exclusive rights to it has a factory LFZ. Today the epitome of the exquisite Russian porcelain is precisely the pattern "Cobalt net". Dishes for tea-parties and solemn dinner parties, vases and souvenirs, cups with a refined list are famous all over the world.