Lot 249
  • 249

A Russian Porcelain Plate from the Service of His Majesty's Own Dacha at Peterhof, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855)

Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 USD
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Description

  • with blue cypher mark
  • Porcelain
  • Diameter 10 in.
  • 25.4 cm
decorated with the entwined floriated Imperial cyphers of Grand Duke Alexander Nicholaevich (later Alexander II) and his wife Maria Alexandrovna

Literature

On this service, see An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, New York, 1991, pp. 100, 103, no. 211.

Condition

overall good condition
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