THE FORTE COLLECTION OF RUSSIAN IMPERIAL PORCELAIN, LOTS 100-103

FOUR RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND FIVE RUSSIAN SERVING PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE

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

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FOUR RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES AND FIVE RUSSIAN SERVING PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I
Each circular, the centre painted with a medallion of scrolling foliage and stylised flowerheads in red, green and blue on a black ground, within a band of green palmettes on a gilt ciselé ground, the gilt rim painted in red and green to simulate jewels, marked under base with underglaze blue factory mark and inscribed with red inventory numbers of the Winter Palace; some with inscribed and incised letters and numerals
Dinner plates, 9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter
Serving plates, 12½ in. (31.8 cm.) diameter (9)

Provenance

Some plates, Christie's, London, 21 October 1987, lots 271, 272 (part). Some plates, with Norwood House Antiques, Harrogate, 15 November 1988.

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Lot Essay

The Kremlin Service was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I in 1837 from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the design entrusted to the painter and future professor of the Academy of Arts, F. G. Solntsev
(1801-1892). The motifs were inspired by seventeenth-century Russian
metalwork; for example the design for the dessert plates came from a
jewelled, gold and enamelled plate made in 1667 for Natalia Kirilovna, née Naryshkina, wife of the second Romanov Tsar, Alexei Mikhailovich.

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