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This is a regular test. The first time I tried creating this picture in Blender it took several days to create a less than satisfactory result. Today's test took about 3 hours end to end including finding a reference cup I liked, finding a light source IES file that matched requirement and creating a saucer from scratch. The trick is to let Blender do the hard work in a stack of modifiers!

Inkscape for the cup and handle outlines
PixPlant for the table top surface normal map creation
Blender 3.1 Cycles for the final render

Background: Greg Zaal's https://polyhaven.com/a/mealie_road HDRI
Lighting: Bega 2500 lm,27 W lamp https://ieslibrary.com/en/browse#ies-0076716053888658f2b8c370aec0cb5a