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A Porcelain Pitcher and Wine Cooler
Lot 455 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A Porcelain Pitcher and Wine Cooler

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I

Closed29 November 2010

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A Porcelain Pitcher and Wine Cooler
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Each painted with pink floral sprays and trailing gilt scrolls amidst blue cartouches on a white ground, on spreading feet, with gilt rims, marked under bases with blue overglaze factory marks
The pitcher 10 in. (25.5 cm.) high, the wine cooler 7¾ in. (20 cm.) high (2)

Natacha Protasieff (1901-1973).
Thence by family descent.

Specialist note

The present pieces are part of a service ordered by Emperor Nicholas I in 1834 as a gift for Mahmud II, the Ottoman Sultan (1808-1839), to mark the signing of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi in 1833, which secured Russian access to the Dardanelles. Part of this service is on display in the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul. See An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 95, pl. 193.