A PAIR OF RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I

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A PAIR OF RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DESSERT PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I
Circular, each painted with stylized floral blossoms on gilt ground, amid foliate sprays, centering an Imperial double-headed eagle and the Russian title of Nicholas I, the border with scrolling green and blue foliage on gilt ground, marked under bases with blue underglaze factory marks, also with red painted inventory numbers
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diameter (2)

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With Rare Art, New York.

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Lot Essay

The Kremlin Service was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I in 1836 from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the design entrusted to the painter and archeologist, F. G. Solntsev (1801-1892). The motifs were inspired by seventeenth-century Russian metalwork, and the design for the present plates came from a jeweled, gold and enameled plate made in 1667 for Natalia Kirilovna, née Naryshkina, wife of the second Romanov Tsar, Alexei Mikhailovich.

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