Four gilt bronze-Mounted Porcelain Tazzi from the Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Service, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St Petersburg, Period of Alexander II (1855-1881)

the borders of each of the oval bowls with a maroon trellis band relieved by the crowned monogram of Grand Duke Alexander Alexandrovich (the future Emperor Alexander III), raised on a baluster-form stem with gilded male masks, the bowls' mounts chased and engraved with a motif of grape vines, the domed spreading foot set on an openwork gilt-bronze mount of scrolls and foliage, apparently unmarked 

the top of the baluster-form stem of one tazza with areas of extensive chipping and loss and with a loose mount; all of the tazzi with some rubbing to gilded areas of the porcelain consistent with age; the gilt bronze feet on two of the four tazzi would benefit from a professional cleaning. One with a painted inventory mark (?) on the underside of the bowl.
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