A pair of large porcelain platters from the Kremlin Service

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THE KREMLIN SERVICE The Kremlin Serice was commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I in 1836 from the Imperial Porcealin Factory. The design for the service was entrusted to Professor Solntsev, sho was inspired by motifs found in the Metalwork of the Seventeenth Century Russia. The following lots were originally offered as part of a 205-piece service in a sale on behalf of the Soviet Government at Christie's, 21 March, 1967. See Baron N.B. Woolff: Imperial Porcelain Factory (St. Petersburg, 1907), pp.197, 201 and 216, illustrated p.214 and 215. THE PROPERTY OF A LADY

A pair of large porcelain platters from the Kremlin Service

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

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A pair of large porcelain platters from the Kremlin Service
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Circular, the centres painted with stylised undulating foliage with blue flowerheads, around a red rosette, on black gound with leaf-tip border, surrounded by green palmette motifs at intervals, on ciselé gilt ground, the gilt rim painted in red and green to simulate jewels, marked under bases
11 13/16in. (32.7cm.) diam. (2)

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