A PORCELAIN DINNER PLATE WITH A VIEW OF GACHINA

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I, CIRCA 1820

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A PORCELAIN DINNER PLATE WITH A VIEW OF GACHINA
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, period of Alexander I, circa 1820
The center with a landscape miniature printed in black and white and colored in sepia, with a cartouche incorporating the Cyrillic signature of I. Cheskii, within gilt border, the rim with repeated gilt floral sprays and gilt borders enclosing a blue band, unmarked
9 5/8in. (24.5cm.)

Literature

Wolff, N. Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1907, p. 131 for similar plates
Hyvönen, H. Russian Porcelain, Helsinki, 1982, pp. 86-91 for illustrations
Rovinskii, D. Detailed Dictionary of Russian Engravers, St. Petersburg, 1895, pp. 129-130
Komelova, G. "Series of engraved Views of St. Petersburg", Russian Culture and Art in the 19th Century, Leningrad, 1985, p. 19 for illustrations

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 this plate are from a series of views of St. Petersburg and its environs engraved between 1801 and 1813 by S. Galaktionov and M. Shotochnikov, comprising four views of Gachina, three of Kamennoi Ostrov, eight of Pavlovsk and eight of Peterhof.

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