BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I

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A Group Of Porcelain Tablewares
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Comprising a pair of large circular platters, a large circular platter and a fruit bowl, each painted with pink floral sprays and trailing gilt scrolls amidst blue cartouches on a white ground, on spreading feet, with gilt rims, marked under bases with blue overglaze factory marks, the platters unmarked
The pair of platters: 15 3/8 in. (39 cm.) diameter; large platter: 12 5/8 in. (32 cm.) diameter; fruit bowl: 10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter (4)

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Lot Essay

The present pieces are part of a service ordered by Emperor Nicholas I in 1834 as a gift for Mahmud II, the Ottoman Sultan (1808-1839), to
mark the signing of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi in 1833, which
secured Russian access to the Dardanelles. Part of this service is on
display in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. See An Imperial
Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 95, pl. 193.

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