BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1830

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A Porcelain Tete-à-Tete Tea Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, circa 1830
Comprising a teapot and cover, a sugar bowl and cover, a cream jug, two cups, and a tray; decorated with gilt ciselé foliate ornament on green grounds, the leaf-clad scrolling handles enclosing floral medallions, the cup handles also with female masks, the bases with incised potters' marks, the tray apparently unmarked
The tray 14¾ in. (37.5 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

For a tete-à-tete with related decoration, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2008, p. 474. A comparable tete-à-tete by the Imperial Porcelain Factory was sold Sotheby's London, 1 December 2009, lot 653.

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