A Set of Twelve Russian Porcelain Soup Plates and Thirty-Six Dinner Plates, Popov Porcelain Manufactory, Gorbunovo, 1830s-1850s

in the Neo-Rococo taste, with bright blue borders, scattered bouquets of flowers, and gilded ornament

overall good condition, with some small rubbing to decoration
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The plates are typical of the florid ornament of the Neo-Rococo taste so popular in Russia in the mid-19th century. The bright "Popov Blue" is a particularly fine example of the unusually rich range of enamel colors that the Popov Manufactory was known to produce.