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

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Three porcelain topographical plates
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander I
Circular, the centres transfer-printed and painted with views of the Palace at Gatchina, the Cameron Gallery at Tsarskoe Selo and the Fortress at Pavlovsk, within pink borders and gilt stylized foliage and berry rims, between gilt bands, each inscribed on the reverse, apparently unmarked
93/8in. (24cm.) diam. and slightly smaller (3)

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Lot Essay

Early in his reign Alexander I reorganised the Imperial Porcelain Factory, appointing as its director the Minister of Economic Affairs, Count D.A. Gur'ev. A new form of decoration developed with transfer-printing techniques, copying well-known paintings and drawings. The views printed on these plates were taken from a series of views of St. Petersburg and its environs engraved between 1801 and 1813 by S. Galaktionov, K. and I. Cheskii, A. Uktomskii and I. Telegin, including four of Gatchina, three of Kamennoi Ostrov, eight of Pavlovsk and eight of Petergof.

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