Live Auction 6451Works of Art from the Collection of the late Lord Forte & An Interior by Francoise de Pfyffer
EIGHTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE
Lot 103

EIGHTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN PLATES FROM THE KREMLIN SERVICE

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

Closed12 July 2012

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GBP 46,850

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EIGHTEEN RUSSIAN PORCELAIN 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 and some inscribed with red inventory numbers of the Winter Palace; most with further inscribed and incised letters and numerals
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diameter (18)

Specialist note

The Kremlin Service was commissioned by Emperor Nicholas I in 1837 from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, and the design entrusted to the painter and future professor of the Academy of Arts, 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.