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A PORCELAIN TWO-HANDED CUP FROM THE SERVICE OF GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1844-1855), 1848-1852

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A PORCELAIN TWO-HANDED CUP FROM THE SERVICE OF GRAND DUKE KONSTANTIN NIKOLAEVICH, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1844-1855), 1848-1852


painted with the Grand Duke’s Imperial cypher on one side and the Imperial double-headed Eagle on the other, with elaborate gilt strapwork of geometric and foliate designs, with impressed number 5

height 7.5cm, 2⅞in.


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Fedor Solntsev (1801-1892), designer of the Kremlin Service, used similar elements of strapwork and state symbols in this service ordered on the occasion of the marriage Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich to Alexandra Iosifovna, Princess of Saxe-Altenburg in 1848.