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A Russian porcelain replacement plate for the Meissen 'St. Andrew First Called Service'

19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK

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A Russian porcelain replacement plate for the Meissen 'St. Andrew First Called Service'
19TH CENTURY, BLUE CROSSED SWORDS MARK
The centre painted with a bouquet of flowers within a continuous moulded band of ribbon-tied Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen, the border similarly moulded between bouquets of lilly-of-the-valley and other flowers at the sides, the Imperial Russian crowned double-headed eagle above and the badge of the Order of St. Andrew the First Called below, within an octafoil gilt diaper border and gilt line rim (gilt rim with slight wear and some areas of re-touching to gilding)
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) wide

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Lot Essay

This plate is part of a group of Russian replacements made for the original Meissen service given by the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II (King August III of Poland), to Elizabeth I Petrovna on the occasion of the marriage of her nephew, Grand Prince Peter Fjodorowitsch, to Sophie-Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst, later Catherine II Alekseevna (Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia 1762-1796). A Meissen plate from this service was sold in these Rooms on 8th July 2002, lot 37.

The Russian Order of St. Andrew was founded in 1698 by Peter the Great, and the cross is a simplified version of the Order's badge. The letters at the each end of the cross, S, A, P and R are an abbreviation of Sanctus Andreas Patronus Russiae.

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