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A GROUP OF TEN PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES AND TWO COMPOTES FROM THE HUNTING SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II

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A GROUP OF TEN PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES AND TWO COMPOTES FROM THE HUNTING SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II
Comprising ten dessert plates, each circular with undulating rim, the white centers painted with various wooded scenes of huntsmen and animals, the green trellis and gilt scroll border with floral sprays at intervals; two compotes, each formed as a vine leaf on a spreading parcel-gilt spiral fluted socle, the centers similarly decorated, the base simulating a flower stem, marked under bases with green underglaze and overglaze factory marks
The plates 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter, the compotes 6¼ in. (15.9 cm.) high (12)

Provenance

Christie's, New York, October 17, 1979, lots 59-65.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The plates and compotes in the present lot are replacements made by the Imperial Porcelain Factory during the period of Alexander II for the original Meissen service commissioned by Empress Catherine II for the Oranienbaum hunting lodge. For further examples from this service, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovish), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 110.

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