Live Auction 7734Russian Art
Christie’s roundel
Lot 179

A pair of porcelain soup plates from the Imperial Hunting Service

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

Closed9 June 2009

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GBP 13,750

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A pair of porcelain soup plates from the Imperial Hunting Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II
Shaped circular, the centre of one depicting a stag in a river, the other with a huntsman shooting a stag, each scene with ochre scroll border, the green trellis and gilt scroll rims with flowers at intervals, marked under bases
9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm.) diameter (2)

Countess Sterzynska, daughter of Princess Schakhovskaya, and by direct descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Catherine II originally commissioned the Hunting Service for the Oranienbaum hunting lodge, based on the Royal Saxon Hunting Service, by Meissen.
See H. Hyvönen. Russian Porcelain Collection of Vera Saarela, Espoo, 1982, p. 127, illustrated p. 126. N. B. von Wolf. The Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1906, p. 85. B. N. Emme. Russian Artistic Porcelain, Moscow, 1950, pp. 30-31.