Two dinner plates from the service of the Imperial Yacht 'Livadiya'
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Two dinner plates from the service of the Imperial Yacht 'Livadiya'

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II, CIRCA 1870

细节
Two dinner plates from the service of the Imperial Yacht 'Livadiya'
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II, circa 1870
Shaped hexagonal, with scalloped rims, each with green borders containing pink band and pink ground roundel with grisaille Imperial arms, a grisaille laurel wreath below and anchors and chain around the border, marked under bases
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diam. (2)
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

拍品专文

The service was made between 1848-1852, ordered on the occasion of the marriage of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich to Alexandra Iuossipovna, Princess of Saxe-Altenburg in 1848. The design by the architect Feodor G. Solnstev (1801-1892), was a leading intellectual in the establishment of the Russian artistic identity in the 19th Century.