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A Set of Six Plates from the Kremlin Service
Lot 401

A Set of Six Plates from the Kremlin Service

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

Closed29 November 2010

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GBP 22,500

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A Set of Six Plates from the Kremlin Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Each circular, the center painted with a medallion of scrolling foliage and stylized flowerheads in red, green and blue on a black ground, within a band of green palmettes on a gilt ciselé ground, the gilt rim painted in red and green to simulate jewels, marked under base with underglaze blue factory mark
9 in. (24.1 cm.) diameter (6)

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.