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A LARGE PORCELAIN PLATTER
Lot 154

A LARGE PORCELAIN PLATTER

BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY

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A LARGE PORCELAIN PLATTER
BY THE POPOV PORCELAIN FACTORY, MOSCOW, MID-19TH CENTURY
Circular, centring a gilt ciselé Imperial double-headed eagle within a blue band, the rim finely painted with varicolour flowerheads, all within a gilt rim, marked under base with a blue factory mark
17 1⁄2 in. (44.4 cm.) diameter

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For a comparable platter by the Popov Factory from the collection of the Kremlin Armoury Museum, see T. Muntian, The World of Fabergé, Moscow, 2000, p. 198, no. 220. The platter was received by the museum from the Grand Kremlin Palace in 1880.