拍品 105
105
A CATHERINE THE GREAT PLATE
A CATHERINE THE GREAT PLATE

CIRCA 1780

细节
A CATHERINE THE GREAT PLATE
CIRCA 1780
The Russian Imperial coat-of-arms finely painted in sepia and gilt in the center, on the rim a delicate border of purple ribbon entwined with flowering vine
9¾ in. (24.8 cm.) diam.

拍品专文

Catherine the Great ordered dinner services from a number of European makers as well as the Chinese. Her earlier Chinese armorial porcelain was in the Baroque style; by the time she commissioned this one Josiah Wedgwood had made a restrained neoclassical style the leading fashion. See C. Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 112 for an example in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.