A pair of Russian wine coolers from the Golden Service, Imperial porcelain manufactory, St Petersburg, Empire.

Richly gilded agianst blue and green background. Height 19,5 cm. Diameter 21 cm.

Minor wear.

Provenance

Inventory marks in green. G32943.

The Golden, or Coat-of-Arms, Service, designed by Stepan Pimenov and Andrei Voronikhin, was produced for the Palace of Pavlovsk in 1827.

Emperor Nicholas I commissioned the Golden Service in 1828 for the use of his mother, Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna, at Pavlovsk and Gatchina Palaces. Most pieces from this service, like this plate, are unmarked, suggested that they were painted on the typically unmarked whiteware of the period of Alexander I (1801-1825). Today the majority of the service is held by Pavlovsk and can frequently be seen on display.

From the Collection of Erich Zechlin, German Envoyé, for the Weimar Republic, in St Petersburg 1929-33. Thence by descent.

For condition report contact specialist