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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
A pair of porcelain Dessert Plates from the Kremlin Service
IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I
Details
A pair of porcelain Dessert Plates from the Kremlin Service
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I
Circular, painted with stylized blossoms on a gilt ground with foliate sprays and flower heads at intervals around the Imperial double-headed eagle and the Russian title of Nicholas I, the borders with floral and foliate sprays on a gilt ground, marked under bases with blue cipher
8½ in. (22 cm.) diam. (2)
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I
Circular, painted with stylized blossoms on a gilt ground with foliate sprays and flower heads at intervals around the Imperial double-headed eagle and the Russian title of Nicholas I, the borders with floral and foliate sprays on a gilt ground, marked under bases with blue cipher
8½ in. (22 cm.) diam. (2)
Further details
In 1830 Nicholas I sponsored Feodor Solntsev, a young graduate of the Academy of Arts, and gave him the task to copy the treasures in the Kremlin Armory and wall ornaments in various churches throughout Russia. The tsar was so pleased with the results that he immediately commissioned Solntsev to provide drawings for the restoration of the old Terem Palace in the Kremlin and to design a large banquet service. The Kremlin Service was intended for five hundred people, with two thousand dinner plates, one thousand soup plates, and one thousand dessert plates.
See Anne Odom, Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hillwood, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 57-61.
See Anne Odom, Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hillwood, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp. 57-61.