A porcelain cup and saucer from the Raphael service, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1893 and 1901

A porcelain cup and saucer from the Raphael service, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1893 and 1901

decorated with Neo-classical motifs, the cup centred with a battle of sea gods en grisaille against an iron red ground

within a shaped cartouche with gilded border with mastic decoration reserved against a band of cream with foliate

trophies and grotesques relieved by scenes of classical goddesses against celadon green grounds; with green Imperial

cypher of Alexander II and overlaid gilt Imperial cypher of Alexander III, dated 1893; the saucer with panels of foliate

trophies and grotesques in celadon, cream, and iron red within gilt borders, with gilt Imperial cypher of Nicholas II

dated 1901

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height 8cm, 3⅛in.