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Plate and Sauce Bowl

1816-1820 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Plate and sauce bowl of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded. Painted with buildings in brown monochrome on a red ground in oval panels set in rectangular yellow compartments. Bowers of roses alternating with formal foliage and flowers in gold.

Object details

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Object type
Parts
This object consists of 2 parts.

  • Butter Dish
  • Stand
Materials and techniques
Hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded
Brief description
Plate and sauce bowl of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, 1816-1820.
Physical description
Plate and sauce bowl of hard-paste porcelain painted with enamels, moulded and gilded. Painted with buildings in brown monochrome on a red ground in oval panels set in rectangular yellow compartments. Bowers of roses alternating with formal foliage and flowers in gold.
Credit line
Presented by Lt. Col. K. Dingwall, DSO with Art Fund support
Object history
Note, according to Irina Bagdasarova, Curator of Russian porcelain, this is not a butter dish, but is probably missing its lid, and therefore may be a sauce tureen.
Historical context
From a service given by Emperor Alexander I of Russia to his sister Catherine Pavlona (1788-1819) who in 1816 married King William I of Württemberg (1781-1864).
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.92&A-1915

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Record createdJune 24, 2009
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