A Set of Eight Porcelain Dinner Plates

IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF NICHOLAS I AND ALEXANDER II

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A Set of Eight Porcelain Dinner Plates
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, periods of Nicholas I and Alexander II
Of silver shape, the center painted with a floral bouquet, the angled edge of the cavetto burnished gold, the shaped border painted with three oval panels of trailing flowers reserved in white with gilt ciselé surrounds issuing flower sprays on a cobalt blue gilt caillouté ground, underglaze blue marks and overglaze green printed marks
The largest plate 11 in. (28 cm.) diam. (8)

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The present lot is part of a service designed after the original Sévres service, which was presented by Louis XV to King Christian of Denmark on the occasion of his state visit to France in 1768. See An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars at Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p.110-111, Nos. 242 and 243, illustrated.