An
Antique Russian Porcelain Platter from the Mikhailovsky Palace Service
of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St.
Petersburg, circa 1835
Diameter 12 1/4 in. (31 cm)
An identical platter is published in AT THE TSAR'S TABLE, page 35.
sold
Condition: some light rubbing to glaze around the spray of
flowers in the center, a foot rim chip on back (shown below).
Marked
with blue cipher of Czar Nicholas I ( H I). The red painted
inventory number indicates that the platter was sold to the
West by the Soviet government in the 1920s-1930s.
The
Mikhailovsky Palace (now the State Russian Museum) was built in the
very center of St Petersburg between 1819 and 1825. It was the prime
residence of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, a brother of Tsar Nicholas I.