The cup, saucer, and plate are made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (St. Petersburg) from classic hard porcelain. The decoration utilizes overglaze décalcomanie and gold hand-painted detailing. The cup’s volume is 250 ml, height – 6.8 cm, saucer diameter – 14.4 cm, plate diameter – 18 cm. The artist of the hand-painting is Alexei Vorobyevsky, a painter at the Lomonosov (Imperial) Porcelain Factory; the form’s designer is Serafima Yakovleva, an artist and sculptor at the Lomonosov (Imperial) Porcelain Factory. The item first went on sale in 1957. An author's original is held in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. "Porcelain lubok" by Vorobyevsky represents a remarkably harmonious world of bright, festive, typically red-blue-gold hand-painted decorations adorning porcelain. Drawing upon the roots of folk art, the artist created emotionally evocative and richly colored works, inspired by fairy tales, epics, fairground performances with their invariable carousels and buffoons, folk theater and its heroes. Mythical birds with golden feathers, golden-maned horses, fantastic flowers, intricate ornamental patterns reminiscent of the decoration on an antique spindle or embroidered sarafan – all of this can be endlessly varied by the artist. Vorobyevsky organically integrated these images into art, reflecting in his works the high aesthetic potential of Russia’s cultural and domestic traditions. An author's original is held in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum. The tea-coffee set "Spring" was created in 1949 by Honored Artist of the RSFSR Serafima Evgenievna Yakovleva, and remains one of the most popular forms to this day due to its simple yet laconic design. For creating this form, Serafima Yakovleva was awarded a Gold Medal at the World’s Fair in Brussels (1958), received a Small Silver Medal from VDNKh in 1960, and a Silver Medal at the International Ceramics Exhibition in Prague in 1962.