A SET OF SEVEN PORCELAIN SOUP PLATES FROM THE GURIEV SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II

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A SET OF SEVEN PORCELAIN SOUP PLATES FROM THE GURIEV SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II
Circular, the centre decorated with a gilt scroll rosette within a gilt cavetto band, the border with stylised gilt husks and scroll swags on a carmine ground, with gilt rim, marked under bases with underglaze green factory mark
9 5/8 in. (24.5 cm.) diameter (7)

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Commissioned in 1809 for the Winter Palace and originally called the Russian Service, the Guriev Service was moved in 1848 to Peterhof for formal use in the Catherine House of Monplaisir, whereupon it was renamed for Count Dmitri Alexandrovich Guriev, director of the Imperial Porcelain Factory under Emperor Alexander I.

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