A Russian dessert dish, Imperial Porcelain manufactory, St Petersburg, period of Tsar Nicolas I, dated 1844.
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Decorated with a young girl in traditional clothing. Painter´s signature A Nesterov. Diameter 23,5 cm.
Chip, wear.
Provenance
The dinner plates were ordered by Nicholas I as a part of Great Princess Alexandra Nikolaevna´s (1825-1844) dowry and were used at her wedding in 1844 with Landgraf Friedrich Wilhelm Karl George Adolf of Hessen Kassel (1820-1884). He brought the plates with him to Hessen after Alexandra´s much to early passing away. The dinner plates then passed to his sister Princess Augusta von Hessen-Kassel (1823-1889) married to Carl von Blixen-Finecke (1822-1873) in 1854. Their son Wilhelm Carl Anna Otto Gunnar Axel von Blixen
Finecke (1863–1942). Thence by descent to the present owner.
Exhibitions
Compare: Dinner plates from the same dinner service in the collection of The State Russian Museum exhibited in 2003 ”Petersburg and Environs on Plates from Imperial Services”. Also in the Museum Schloss Fasaneri, Hessische Hausstiftung.
Literature
St Petersburg um 1800, page 160. Das mitgift einem Tsarentochter, Andreas Dobler, Hessische Hausstiftung.
More information
A set of dishes from this service was sold in these rooms in 2007, Auction 546.