OVAL PLATTER FROM HER MAJESTY'S OWN SERVICE
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
Oval dish made for Empress Elizabeth I (Elizaveta Petrovna), moulded with spiraling gilt lattice-work, progressively smaller in mesh towards the center, each intersection marked with a forget-me-not florette colored in puce with yellow center, the lobed rim with gilt edges. Paste is quite white compared to plate and bowl.
- Object name:
- OVAL PLATTER FROM HER MAJESTY'S OWN SERVICE
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1741-1761
- Size:
- 46 x 32.4 cm (18 1/8 x 12 3/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.222
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK black double headed eagle and, in red: 2.4. 23ii. standing for Gofmarshalskaya Chasti, pre-Revolutionary Hermitage marks.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973