BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1855)

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SIX PORCELAIN TOPOGRAPHICAL PLATES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1855)
Each circular, painted with views of Saint Petersburg, including the Academy of Sciences, Imperial Library, Suvorov Square and others, the white border ciselé gilt with a ribbon-tied laurel wreath above inscriptions, the scalloped rim decorated with gilt reeding and anthemion at intervals, five marked under bases with overglaze blue factory marks, two also inscribed 'c.2.4.'
9 1/8 in. (23.3 cm.) diameter

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The paintings of St Petersburg landmarks that decorate the present plates are after engravings by various artists from the early 1800s. For other comparable plates from this series painted with the views of German landmarks, held in the collection of Kuskovo Palace, see M. Korablev, M. Sokolenko, Antologiia Russkogo Farfora XVIII-nachala XX veka, vol. 7, part 7, Moscow, 2014, pp. 108-111.

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