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A RARE AND IMPORTANT PORCELAIN TUREEN, COVER AND STAND FROM THE DOWRY SERVICE OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA
Lot 304 PROPERTY FROM A GERMAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A RARE AND IMPORTANT PORCELAIN TUREEN, COVER AND STAND FROM THE DOWRY SERVICE OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF PAUL I AND ALEXANDER I, CIRCA 1816

Closed6 June 2011

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A RARE AND IMPORTANT PORCELAIN TUREEN, COVER AND STAND FROM THE DOWRY SERVICE OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF PAUL I AND ALEXANDER I, CIRCA 1816
Compressed circular, on raised foot and with acanthus capped upswept handles, each side with a cartouche painted with a view within ciselé gilt interlacing bands of stylised foliage, the gilt borders each painted at intervals with four pale yellow cartouches centring architectural views painted en grisaille on rust ground, the upper border with polychrome floral garlands, the lower border with gilt berried laurel, the domed cover with conforming decoration and gilt plant-form finial, the base inscribed 'Place du Grand hopital', further inscribed 'Couvent Royal de St. François', on a two-tiered stand with conforming decoration and four gilt lion's paw feet, above an oval base, apparently unmarked, the tureen with impressed numerals '2 III' and '9' under base, the stand with impressed numeral '1'
15¾ in. (40 cm.) high, including stand (3)

Former collection of Count Bielitzky, Stockholm.

Specialist note

The Dowry Service for Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna (1788-1819), daughter of Paul I, was manufactured between 1799 and 1802. It is often called the Württemberg Service, because of Catherine's second marriage to Wilhelm of Württemberg, following the death of her first husband, Prince Peter Friedrich Georg of Oldenburg. The service was given as a wedding present by Alexander I to Catherine Pavlovna and Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg (1781-1864). Upon her remarriage in 1816, Catherine moved her household, including the porcelain from her dowry, to her new home in Stuttgart.
A monteith from the service painted with a view of 'Portes de Syracuse' is illustrated in P. Schaffer, ed., An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 40, pl. 423. Three plates from the service, all decorated with antique views of Syracuse and with impressed numbers, are illustrated in H. Hyvönen, Russian Porcelain, Collection Vera Saarela, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, 1982, pp. 79-83, nos. 20-22. For porcelain pieces of related form and design from other Dowry Services, and from the Iussupov and Cabinet Services see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, pp. 162-166.