A Set of Twelve Berlin (K.P.M.) Porcelain Plates with Russian-Style Decoration, 1849-1870

with the Cyrillic cipher A.V. in ciselé gilt beneath an Imperial crown in an oval reserve at the top, the borders with brightly-colored interlaced floral ornament in grisaille and ciselé gilt heightened with blue and set against a ground of iron red, black, and green, the cavetto bordered with a row of blue beads outlined in gilt and with a gilt band, gilt-scalloped rim, sceptre marks above eagle within roundel in underglaze-blue, printed orb and KPM marks in iron-red, incised III, impressed x

diameter 9 3/4 in.

24.8 cm