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

Details

Two porcelain dinner plates from the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich service
by The Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Circular, each with gilt rosette at the centre, gilt borders and outline to the rust red, green foliate and black design of inner band and reserves around the border, two containing the Imperial crowned Cyrillic initials VKKN and crest of the Grand Duke, with blue line borders between, marked under bases
9½ in. (24cm.) diam. (2)

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Lot Essay

The service was made between 1848-1852, ordered on the occasion of the marriage of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich to Alexandra Iuossipovna, Princess of Saxe-Altenburg in 1848. The design by the architect Feodor G. Solnstev (1801-1892), was a leading intellectual in the establishment of the Russian artistic identity in the 19th Century.

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