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A GROUP OF FIVE DESSERT AND EIGHT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES FROM THE PURPLE SERVICE
Lot 384

A GROUP OF FIVE DESSERT AND EIGHT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES FROM THE PURPLE SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905-1907

Closed27 November 2017

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A GROUP OF FIVE DESSERT AND EIGHT PORCELAIN DINNER PLATES FROM THE PURPLE SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II, 1905-1907
The dessert plates of shaped circular form, with reticulated borders, decorated with gilt ciselé reserves with foliage and rocaille cartouches, the centres finely painted with purple putti; the dinner plates, the borders finely painted with purple landscapes, within gilt ciselé reserves decorated with foliage and rocaille cartouches, all marked under bases with green underglaze factory marks
9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diameter and smaller

Specialist note

The last major commission from the Imperial Porcelain Factory, this service was intended for the palace at Tsarskoe Selo. The service was decorated in the purple and gold colours of sovereignty, after designs by Emil Kremer. For comparable pieces from the Purple Service, see Exhibition Catalogue, An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain - Dining with the Czars Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, nos. 274-278.