A Porcelain Serving Plate from the Dowry Service of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF PAUL I, CIRCA 1797-1799

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A Porcelain Serving Plate from the Dowry Service of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Paul I, circa 1797-1799
Oval, the body centred with an oval cartouche painted with the ruins of the Temple of Segesta, framed within a circular gilt band and gilt laurel wreath, the upper border a wide gilt band with pink roses and entwining green branches, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark and inscribed 'Temple de Segeste.'
16 in. (41 cm.) long

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In 1796, Empress Catherine II commissioned porcelain services as part of the dowries of her two eldest granddaughters, Alexandra and Elena, the daughters of future Emperor Paul I. Both services are variants of the Cabinet Service, painted with Italianate views within polychrome floral borders on a white ground. In 1799, Paul I ordered similar services for his two younger daughters, Maria and Catherine.

Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna (1784-1803) was married in October 1799 to Hereditary Prince Friedrich Ludwig of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1778-1819), the eldest son of Friedrich Franz I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

Comparable oval serving dishes from the Dowry Service of Grand Duchess Elena Pavlovna are in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. For further examples, see N.B. von Wolf, (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 165-166.

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