Details
A pair of large Kremlin service serving platters
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St. Petersburg, period of Nicholas I
Circular, the centre painted with stylized foliage and blue flower-heads, around a red rosette, on black ground with leaf-tip border, surrounded by stylized green branches in arched reserves, on a ciselé gilt ground, the gilt rim painted in pink and green to simulate jewels, marked under bases
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) diameter (2)
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Sale Room Notice
Please note the provenance for this lot should read:
The Soviet Trade Organisation, Novoexport, Christie's, London, 21 March 1967, lot 19 (part).
Purchased by Douglas W. Lipperts, New York.
with Francis Collin Ltd., London.
Acquired 30 March 1967 by the present owners' father and father-in-law.