A Porcelain Oyster Dish from the Raphael Service, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1899

A Porcelain Oyster Dish from the Raphael Service, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, 1899

of circular shape with rounded handle, the centre with a finely painted vignette of a centaur regarding a classical herm

en grisaille against an iron red ground in a circular reserve, surrounded by nine radiating panels decorated with foliate

trophies and grotesques, the handle with a dragon en grisaille against an iron red ground, gilt rim and foot, with gilt

Imperial cypher of Nicholas II dated 1899

length 14.5cm, 5⅝in.