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A PART SET OF PORCELAIN TABLEWARES
Lot 324

A PART SET OF PORCELAIN TABLEWARES

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF NICHOLAS I AND ALEXANDER II

Closed1 June 2015

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GBP 2,000

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A PART SET OF PORCELAIN TABLEWARES
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF NICHOLAS I AND ALEXANDER II
Comprising four circular plates with reticulated borders, three dinner plates of silver shape, one circular dinner plate, one circular soup plate; each painted in reserve with a polychrome floral bouquet on a white ground within cobalt blue borders heightened with a gilt caillouté pattern; marked under bases with blue underglaze factory marks
10¼ in. (26 cm.) diameter and smaller

Specialist note

The present lot is part of a service designed after the original Sévres service, which was presented by Louis XV to King Christian of Denmark on the occasion of his state visit to France in 1768. For more pieces from this service, see A La Vieille Russie, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars at Peterhof, New York, 1991, pp. 110-111, nos. 242 and 243.