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A Porcelain Plate from the Etruscan Service
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A Porcelain Plate from the Etruscan Service

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, 19TH CENTURY, APPARENTLY UNMARKED

Closed13 April 2011

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A Porcelain Plate from the Etruscan Service
By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 19th century, apparently unmarked
Circular with black rim, the center painted with a woman riding in a horse-drawn chariot, the border with stylized palmette and floral motifs on a terra-cotta ground, impressed under base with numeral '5.'
8 5/8 in. (21.9 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For other examples of white-ground plates from the Etruscan service, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2008, pp. 400-401.