In 1763 Frederick the Great took over porcelain works from a Berlin businessman. The Prussian King gave the works their current name, KPM: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur, or Royal Porcelain Manufacturing. He also gave the porcelain its royal insignia - the royal blue sceptre and orb.

To this day, Berlin porcelain is still shaped and painted by hand in the traditional style, with passion and high-quality craftsmanship.

At the beginning of the last century the Deutsche Werkbund and the Bauhaus movement demanded a “New Functionalism”. Urbino, a service created in 1931 for KPM by Trude Petri, is an excellent example of this creative approach. Based on a fundamental spherical shape, Urbino is the epitome of clarity and elegance. Its perfection of form makes it a captivating classic in “white gold”.

Urbino, a prime example of timeless porcelain design, is on display in the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

*In this pattern a blue line zig-zags across the cups and saucers of the plain white Urbino porcelain series, as pictured.