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IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II
Details
A Porcelain Plate from the Imperial Yacht Niksa Service
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II
The center painted with a lighthouse and ships on a stormy sea, the border with five cartouches containing a gilt Cyrillic letters of the Imperial Yacht Niksa on a blue ground, within elaborate ciselé scrolls and blossoms, marked under the base with green cipher
8 7/8 in. (22.4 cm.) diam.
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II
The center painted with a lighthouse and ships on a stormy sea, the border with five cartouches containing a gilt Cyrillic letters of the Imperial Yacht Niksa on a blue ground, within elaborate ciselé scrolls and blossoms, marked under the base with green cipher
8 7/8 in. (22.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's New York, October 21, 2003, lot 53.
Further details
See New York, A La Vieille Russie, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, (1991), plate 288, for a similar plate.