BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, 1878

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A PORCELAIN TRAY
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, 1878
Of oval form, the centre painted en grisaille with 'The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander' after Charles le Brun, the pierced gilt border with an outer blue rim, signed in Cyrillic and dated under base 'F. Torachkov. 1878', marked under base with green factory mark
12 3⁄8 in. (31.4 cm.) long

Literature

Exhibition Catalogue, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 120, no. 270 (illustrated).

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Lot Essay

'The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander' was commissioned to Charles le Brun by Louis XIV in 1660, and is now in the Musée du Château, Versailles. In this scene from the life of Alexander the Great, he and his faithful Hephaestion visit the Queen of Persia soon after defeating her husband Darius III, the last king of the Achaemenid Empire, at the Battle of Issus. Charles Le Brun won the admiration of Louis XIV with this painting, and was made a court painter.

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