
Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
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£60,000 - £80,000
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Provenance
Private collection, Monaco
The present lot consists of plates made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory as additions to the famous St.Andrew porcelain service manufactured at the Meissen factory and sent as a diplomatic gift to Empress Elizabeth I of Russia on occasion of the marriage of her nephew, Grand Duke Peter, future Emperor Peter III, to Princess Sophie Augusta Frederica of Anhalt-Zerbst, later Empress Catherine II. It arrived in St. Petersburg in 1745 and was often used during the elaborate official court dinners. The Imperial Porcelain Factory made additions to the service until the middle of the nineteenth century.