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Dinner plate

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Dinner plate

ca. 1837-55

Russian, Imperial manufactory

Fedor Solntsev

Russian, 1801-1892

From the Kremlin Service designed by Fedor Solntsev (1801–1892). Tsar Nicholas I requested that the Kremlin Service be in “old Russian taste.” In designing the service, Solntsev took inspiration from seventeenth-century Russian and Turkish enameled metalwork in the Kremlin’s armory. The motif on this plate for zabuski, hot hors d’oeuvres, is based on a gold wash basin from Constantinople. The Kremlin Service was planned for five hundred people.
Hard paste porcelain
Diam.: 8 7/8 in.
The Plestcheeff Collection
97.44.14
location
Now on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Resources

Exhibition HistorySeattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, "The Plestcheeff Collection", May 8, 1998 - December 3, 1999

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