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A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE GURIEV SERVICE
Lot 279 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT SCANDINAVIAN COLLECTION

A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE GURIEV SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I, CIRCA 1809-1817

Closed28 November 2016

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GBP 7,500

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A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE GURIEV SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I, CIRCA 1809-1817
The centre painted with a Yaroslavl merchant and his wife, the border with foliate arabesques on a burgundy red ground, the reverse inscribed and signed in French and Russian, unmarked
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

For related plates from the Guriev Service, see An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, pp. 42-43.