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TWO PORCELAIN SERVING PLATTERS FROM THE DOWRY SERVICE OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I (1801-1825)

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TWO PORCELAIN SERVING PLATTERS FROM THE DOWRY SERVICE OF GRAND DUCHESS CATHERINE PAVLOVNA
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER I (1801-1825)
Each circular, the centres painted with a view of the Italian city of Narni and the Milvian Bridge within gilt frame, the border painted at intervals with three pale yellow cartouches centring architectural views painted en grisaille on rust ground, the upper border with a band of pink roses and entwining green branches, gilt rim, the reverses inscribed 'Ponte Molle' and 'Pont Moderne de Narni', marked under bases with blue underglaze factory marks, one also incised with numerals and letters
13½ in. (34.4 cm.) diameter

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Lot Essay

The Dowry Service for Grand Duchess Ekaterina Pavlovna (1788-1819), daughter of Paul I, was manufactured between 1799 and 1802. It is often called the Württemberg Service due to her second marriage to Wilhelm of Württemberg, following the death of her first husband, Prince Peter Friedrich Georg of Oldenburg. The service was given as a wedding present by Alexander I to his sister Ekaterina Pavlovna and her husband Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg (1781-1864).

For further information on this service, see N.B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 162-166.

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