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A porcelain dessert plate from the Raphael service
IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, DATED 1884
Details
A porcelain dessert plate from the Raphael service
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander III, dated 1884
Circular, the center decorated with a classical figure on a dark grey ground within a hexagonal border on a white ground, the border with additional figures alternating with classical-style friezes, grottesques and foliate decoration, with gilt-edged rim and base, marked under base with a large gilt cipher of the reigning Tsar, dated 1884
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam.
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander III, dated 1884
Circular, the center decorated with a classical figure on a dark grey ground within a hexagonal border on a white ground, the border with additional figures alternating with classical-style friezes, grottesques and foliate decoration, with gilt-edged rim and base, marked under base with a large gilt cipher of the reigning Tsar, dated 1884
8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam.
Further details
Commissioned in 1893 for the palace at Tsarskoe Selo, the Raphael Service was the largest and most important porcelain service produced by the Imperial Porcelain Factory during the reign of Alexander III (1881-1894). The designs were originally derived from Raphael frescoes in the loggias of the Vatican, which were subsequently reproduced in the Winter Palace by Quarenghi (1783-1872) during the reign of Catherine the Great. Finally completed in 1903, the service comprised fifty place settings. In 1904 it was transferred to the Anichkov Palace for use by the Empress Maria Feodorovna.
For plates from the same service see G. Agarkova and N. Petrovna, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture in St. Petersburg, 1774-1994, St. Petersburg, 1994, pp.21, 59, 61, 79 and Anne Odom, Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hillwood, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp.92-93.
For plates from the same service see G. Agarkova and N. Petrovna, 250 Years of Lomonosov Porcelain Manufacture in St. Petersburg, 1774-1994, St. Petersburg, 1994, pp.21, 59, 61, 79 and Anne Odom, Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hillwood, Washington, D.C., 1999, pp.92-93.