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拍品專文
The Dowry Service for Grand Duchess Catherine Pavlovna (1788-1819), daughter of Paul I, was manufactured between 1799 and 1802. It is often called the Württemberg Service, because of Catherine's 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 Catherine Pavlovna and Wilhelm I, King of Württemberg (1781-1864). Upon her remarriage in 1816, Catherine moved her household, including the porcelain from her dowry, to her new home in Stuttgart.
A monteith from the service painted with a view of 'Portes de Syracuse' is illustrated in P. Schaffer, ed., An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 40, pl. 423. Three plates from the service, all decorated with antique views of Syracuse and with impressed numbers, are illustrated in H. Hyvönen, Russian Porcelain, Collection Vera Saarela, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, 1982, pp. 79-83, nos. 20-22. For porcelain pieces of related form and design from other Dowry Services, and from the Iussupov and Cabinet Services see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, pp. 162-166.
A monteith from the service painted with a view of 'Portes de Syracuse' is illustrated in P. Schaffer, ed., An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p. 40, pl. 423. Three plates from the service, all decorated with antique views of Syracuse and with impressed numbers, are illustrated in H. Hyvönen, Russian Porcelain, Collection Vera Saarela, The National Museum of Finland, Helsinki, 1982, pp. 79-83, nos. 20-22. For porcelain pieces of related form and design from other Dowry Services, and from the Iussupov and Cabinet Services see N.B. von Wolf (ed. T.N. Nosovich), Imperatorskii farforovyi zavod, 1744-1904, St. Petersburg, 2003, pp. 162-166.