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TWO, BY THE MEZER PORCELAIN FACTORY, BARANOVKA, CIRCA 1820-1830; ONE, BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1855)
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THREE PORCELAIN PLATES
TWO, BY THE MEZER PORCELAIN FACTORY, BARANOVKA, CIRCA 1820-1830; ONE, BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1855)
Two floral plates, painted with a lily-of-the-valley and tulips after Karl Ledebur, within a gilt cavetto, the rim decorated with a gilt star and dot motif on a green ground, inscribed in French under bases, one marked under base with a black double-headed eagle; the cobalt blue and gilt plate, decorated with floral sprays, marked with a blue underglaze factory mark under base; together with a Berlin K.P.M. plate, decorated with the coat-of-arms of the principality of Reuss-Greiz, marked under base
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter and smaller
TWO, BY THE MEZER PORCELAIN FACTORY, BARANOVKA, CIRCA 1820-1830; ONE, BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825-1855)
Two floral plates, painted with a lily-of-the-valley and tulips after Karl Ledebur, within a gilt cavetto, the rim decorated with a gilt star and dot motif on a green ground, inscribed in French under bases, one marked under base with a black double-headed eagle; the cobalt blue and gilt plate, decorated with floral sprays, marked with a blue underglaze factory mark under base; together with a Berlin K.P.M. plate, decorated with the coat-of-arms of the principality of Reuss-Greiz, marked under base
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter and smaller
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, nos. 243A, 344.
Exhibited
New York, A La Vieille Russie, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain. Dining with the Czars: Peterhof, 1991, nos. 243A, 344.
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