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

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SIX DINNER PLATES AND TWO SOUP PLATES FROM THE HUNTING SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II
Circular, each depicting a unique scene with huntsmen, dogs or deer, with green trellis border painted with flowers intervals, with gilt rim, all marked under base with green overglaze or underglaze factory mark
Dinner plate 9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter (8)

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Lot Essay

The plates 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 the service, see N. B. von Wolf, The Imperial Porcelain Factory, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 1906, p. 85.

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