A Set of Eight Pictorial Porcelain Plates, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, Period of Alexander I, 1810-1820s

each depicting a mythological or classical scene within a gilt rosette border, titled on reverse:  Thetys, L'Enterrement d' Europe, La Cruelle, Le Rendez-Vous, Le Nid de Colombe, L'Arbre de Naissance, L'Aimable Rencontre, Le Jardinier d'Amour,some also bearing palace inventory labels numbered N 7578; in an A La Vieille Russie fitted case, the reverse of each incised with modellers' marks including AB and others

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diameter of each 24.5cm; 9 7/8 in.