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Lot 128

A large group of plates from the St. Andrew Service
Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II

8 June 2016, 15:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£60,000 - £80,000

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A large group of plates from the St. Andrew Service

Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Alexander II
comprising: sixteen deep plates, seven dinner plates, sixteen dessert plates, all circular with scalloped rim, the center painted with Holzschnittblumen within molded in relief Gotzkowsky flowers, the border centred at the top with double-headed Russian Imperial eagle and the cross of St. Andrew the First Called below, with gilt trellis rim (39)
diameter of dinner plate: 28.4cm (11 in).

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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.

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