A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER AND A COVERED CUP
Lot 340

A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER AND A COVERED CUP

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF PAUL I (1796-1801) AND CATHERINE THE GREAT (1762-1796)

Closed26 November 2018

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GBP 12,500

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A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER AND A COVERED CUP
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIODS OF PAUL I (1796-1801) AND CATHERINE THE GREAT (1762-1796)
The cup and saucer, decorated with the gilt crowned monogram of Paul I, within a fine gilt geometric border on iridescent burgundy ground, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark of Paul I; the covered cup, decorated with green and gilt foliage on white ground, with a beaded pink band, the cover with a bud finial, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark of Catherine the Great
The covered cup, 3 7/8 in. (10 cm.) high

Specialist note

For a comparable covered cup from the period of Catherine the Great, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 104, 108.