Empire-Era Service — Return from a Polish Collection
The museum received a complete 24-piece Empire-style service of the 1820s from Baranivka — returned from the private collection of the Szawiński family in Krakow under a cultural-partnership agreement.
In November 2025 the Baranivka Porcelain Museum received in its collection a complete twenty-four-piece Empire-style dining service, produced at the Baranivka Factory in the 1820s. The service returned to Ukraine from the private collection of the Szawiński family in Krakow under an inter-museum cultural-partnership agreement signed in 2024. The set includes: a covered soup tureen, four sauce-boat stands, twelve deep and twelve flat plates, two bread baskets.
All items of the service are decorated in the Empire style characteristic of Baranivka: white porcelain with a cobalt-blue rim, gilded edges, a central composition in the form of a classical acanthus-leaf garland. Restoration examination showed: the porcelain is thin-walled (high production quality), cobalt glaze without traces of later re-firing, gold applied in the classical way — oxide gilding. The exhibition of the service will open in the main hall of the museum in December 2025 as the central exhibit of the Baranivka Empire era.
