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Property from an Important Private Collection, England
A Highly Important and Monumental Imperial Presentation Porcelain Plaque, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), 1852
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July 6, 02:09 PM GMT
Estimate
300,000 - 500,000 GBP
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Property from an Important Private Collection, England
A Highly Important and Monumental Imperial Presentation Porcelain Plaque, Imperial Porcelain Factory
St Petersburg, Period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), 1852
Signed and dated ‘A.Krasovsky 1852’, after a still-life painting by Johann Christian Roedig, with blue Imperial cypher of Nicholas I on the reverse
70.5 by 59.5cm, 27 3/4 x 23 1/2in.
Presented by Emperor Nicholas I (1825-1855) to his sister-in-law Princess Alexandrine of Prussia (1803 –1892), Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as a Christmas gift in 1852.