A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DINNER PLATE FROM THE RAPHAEL SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1891
The centre decorated with a seated lady painted en grisaille on a red ground in a hexagonal frame, on white ground, surrounded by a border of classical-style friezes with three red ground roundels, three cream ground interjections and six stylised panels, at intervals, within gilt banding, the panels with raised beading, decorated with monochrome mythical, stylised animals, gilt rim and foot, marked under base with gilt crowned monogram of Alexander III and dated 1891
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter
A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN DINNER PLATE FROM THE RAPHAEL SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1891
The centre decorated with a seated lady painted en grisaille on a red ground in a hexagonal frame, on white ground, surrounded by a border of classical-style friezes with three red ground roundels, three cream ground interjections and six stylised panels, at intervals, within gilt banding, the panels with raised beading, decorated with monochrome mythical, stylised animals, gilt rim and foot, marked under base with gilt crowned monogram of Alexander III and dated 1891
9½ in. (24 cm.) diameter
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