Pair of cups

Country: France

Date of establishment: 1850

Sculptor: Jean Gille

Size (cm): 12

Porcelain Story

Do you know what is the most amazing thing about this work for me? No, not their unconditional beauty and, I would even say, extraordinary tenderness and warmth, which in porcelain can be conveyed precisely by biscuit technique. And not even a respectable age of this unique work. I see the most amazing in the incredible - absolutely perfect! - condition of each cup. Even the thin mustache of this apparently Chinese nobleman is like new.

You know, I've been collecting porcelain for many years. I also captured the time when my attempts to buy a product I liked at an eBay porcelain auction often received a sharp refusal from sellers (especially from the USA or Great Britain): where are you from? From this "gangster" Ukraine? We do not sell antiquities to your country on principle!.. It took many years before, having earned a high rating in the same Ebay, we managed to achieve - by the clear fulfillment of all auction obligations - recognition and respect for the representatives of our country and in this segment of international contacts.

True, it was a huge problem to get the porcelain work delivered to Ukraine safe. Dozens, if not hundreds, of times I was convinced that the employees of the Ukrainian customs and Ukrainian representative offices of international delivery companies deliberately damaged the finest works of art, after which they brazenly demanded to pay them for these terrible deeds! However, this is a topic for a completely different conversation.