TWO PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS
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TWO PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS

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

Closed4 June 2018

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GBP 3,250

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TWO PORCELAIN CUPS AND SAUCERS
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF NICHOLAS I AND ALEXANDER III
One cup and saucer decorated with white enamel fluted reeds, within gilt acanthus borders, saucer marked with blue overglaze factory mark of Nicholas I under base; the other cup and saucer decorated with floral motifs on blue background, centring a cypher of Alexander II, both marked under bases with green underglaze factory mark of Alexander III
The cups, 3½ in. (9 cm.) high and smaller

Specialist note

For a comparable cup and saucer with enamel reeds, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, p. 473.