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A set of four dinner plates, Imperial porcelain manufactory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I. (4)

Estimate
15 000 - 20 000 SEK
1 340 - 1 790 EUR
1 420 - 1 890 USD
Hammer price
14 000 SEK
Purchasing info
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Cecilia Nordström
Stockholm
Cecilia Nordström
Head Specialist Asian Ceramics and Works of Art, European Ceramics and Glass
+46 (0)739 40 08 02
A set of four dinner plates, Imperial porcelain manufactory, St Petersburg, period of Nicholas I. (4)

Diameter 24 cm.

Wear.

Provenance

The service was ordered by Emperor Nicholas I in 1834 as a gift for Mahmud II, the Sultan of Turkey (1808-1839), to mark the signing of the Treaty of Unkiar Skelessi in 1833, which secured Russian acess to the Dardanelles.

Exhibitions

Part of this service is on display at the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul.

Literature

An Imperial fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof. A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, p 95. pl 193.

More information

Also compare Christies, sale 7677, 12 and 13 of Oktober, the Popoff Collection Lot 221.