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IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF NICHOLAS I AND ALEXANDER II
Details
A Part Dinner Service
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, periods of Nicholas I and Alexander II
The first of silver shape, the center painted with a floral bouquet, the angled edge of the cavetto burnished gold, the shaped border painted with three oval panels of trailing flowers reserved in white with gilt ciselé surrounds issuing flower sprays on cobalt blue gilt caillouté ground; the second circular, the shaped border painted with four cartouches of garden flowers on white ground with gilt ciselé reserved in white with gilt ciselé surrounds issuing of trailing flowers on a cobalt blue gilt caillouté ground, marked under bases, comprising:
Six dinner plates, period of Nicholas I
Eight dinner plates, period of Alexander II
Three soup plates, period of Alexander II
Dinner and soup plates 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam. Dinner plates 10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam. (17)
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, periods of Nicholas I and Alexander II
The first of silver shape, the center painted with a floral bouquet, the angled edge of the cavetto burnished gold, the shaped border painted with three oval panels of trailing flowers reserved in white with gilt ciselé surrounds issuing flower sprays on cobalt blue gilt caillouté ground; the second circular, the shaped border painted with four cartouches of garden flowers on white ground with gilt ciselé reserved in white with gilt ciselé surrounds issuing of trailing flowers on a cobalt blue gilt caillouté ground, marked under bases, comprising:
Six dinner plates, period of Nicholas I
Eight dinner plates, period of Alexander II
Three soup plates, period of Alexander II
Dinner and soup plates 10 in. (25.4 cm.) diam. Dinner plates 10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam. (17)
Further details
This service is after a Sèvres service presented by Louis XV to King Christian of Denmark on the occasion of his state visit to France in 1768. For other pieces from this service, see An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p.110-111, nos. 242 and 243)