BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, SET OF SIX DINNER PLATES PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II 1896 AND 1898

Details

A part of the Guriev porcelain service
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II, set of six dinner plates period of Nicholas II 1896 and 1898
Circular, each with gilt scroll rosette to the white centre, the red-brown border with three different foliate gilt patterns between the gilt inner band and rim comprising:
Twelve dinner soup plates with lotus leaf, husk and scroll pattern
Six dinner plates with laurel spray and scroll pattern
Six dinner plates with lotus, husk and flowerspray pattern, marked under bases
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.); 9½ in. (23 cm.); and 9 7/8 in. (25 cm.) diameter respectively (24)

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VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

The Russian Service originally ordered by Alexander I for the Winter Palace, was re-named after the Director of His Majesty's Cabinet posthumously when the service was moved to Peterhof for use at the Catherine House in 1848. Originally designed with traditional Russian figural scenes for fifty place settings, the service was enlarged in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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