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A Porcelain Cake-Stand from the Babigon Service
Lot 343 The Babigon Service, characterised by its distinctive rim ornament of gilt ciselé garlands on a grey ground, embodies the classical elegance of works produced by the Imperial Porcelain Factory during the reign of Alexander I. Originally created in 1823-24 for the Great Peterhof Palace, the service was expanded in 1840. By 1857, part of the service had been transferred to the newly constructed Belvedere Palace on Babigon Hill near Peterhof, from which the service took its name. Pieces from the Babigon Service are held in the State Hermitage Museum, the Peterhof and Tsarskoe Selo State Museums, the State Russian Museum in St Petersburg, and the State Historical Museum in Moscow. (N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 273-291).

A Porcelain Cake-Stand from the Babigon Service

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, 19TH CENTURY

Closed29 November 2010

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GBP 13,750

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A Porcelain Cake-Stand from the Babigon Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 19th Century
With three circular tiers, all centring a gilt rosette within gilt band, the light grey borders painted with a frieze of burnished gold vines within gilt continuous triangle, reeded russet and gilt band borders, the stem and outer borders of burnished gold and moulded with foliage, gilt acorn finial, unmarked
16½ in. (42 cm.) high