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A Set of Four Plates from the Kremlin Service
Lot 400

A Set of Four Plates from the Kremlin Service

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

Closed29 November 2010

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GBP 27,500

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A Set of Four Plates from the Kremlin Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Circular, painted with stylised blossoms on gilt ground with foliate sprays at intervals around the Imperial double-headed eagle and the Russian title of Nicholas I, the borders with floral and foliate sprays on gilt ground, marked under bases with underglaze factory mark
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diameter (4)

Specialist note

The Kremlin Service was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I in 1836 from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the design entrusted to the painter and archeologist, F. G. Solntsev (1801-1892). The motifs were inspired by seventeenth century Russian metalwork; for example the design for the dessert plates came from a jewelled, gold and enamelled plate made in 1667 for Natalia Kirilovna, née Naryshkina, wife of the second Romanov Tsar, Alexei Mikhailovich.