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A Set of Twenty-Four Dinner Plates from the Service of the Imperial Order of St Andrew, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, Period of Alexander II (1855-1881)
Auction Closed
February 3, 09:38 PM GMT
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
of octofoil form, molded with Gotzkowsky erhabene Blumen, with three sprays of Hochschnitt Blumen and with the Imperial Russian State Seal and the Cross of the Order of St. Andrew, with gilt trellis pattern rim, each marked under base with green crowned cypher for Alexander II
(24)
diameter of each 24.8cm; 9 3/4 in.
Sotheby's New York, 17 April 2012, lot 101
In 1856, shortly after ascending to the throne, Emperor Alexander II ordered additions to be made to the four Order Services originally ordered by Catherine II from the Gardner Manufactory in the late eighteenth century, as well as the original St. Andrew Service that Augustus of Saxony had given to Empress Elizabeth. On the additions, see A. Odom, Russian Imperial Porcelain at Hillwood, Washington, DC, 1999, pp. 78-80.