Lot Essay
For a discussion of this service and the earlier Chinese export dinner service ordered by Catherine of Russia see Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 110.
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A RETICULATED ARMORIAL DISH
CIRCA 1785
Painted in the center with the Imperial Russian arms for Catherine the Great, the well decorated with a Wedgwood style neoclassical border of an entwined purple ribbon and garland of spring flowers (slight rubbing, one shallow rim chip)--10 7/8in. (27.6cm.) wide
CIRCA 1785
Painted in the center with the Imperial Russian arms for Catherine the Great, the well decorated with a Wedgwood style neoclassical border of an entwined purple ribbon and garland of spring flowers (slight rubbing, one shallow rim chip)--10 7/8in. (27.6cm.) wide