Item No. lam631.

Bun plate. Manufacturer, Lomonosov. Made in the USSR.

Diameter 18 cm.

The Lomonosov Imperial Porcelain Factory was founded in St. Petersburg in 1744 under the decree of Peter the Great's daughter. Empress Elizabeth.  It was the first porcelain company in Russia and the third in all of Europe Europe. This is where the talented Russian scientist Dmitry Vinogradov (1720-1758) discovered the secret of making "white gold."  He was the first in the history of ceramics was a scientific description of porcelain production, which is close to the latest concepts of ceramic chemistry.