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Lot 237 Dα

A St. Petersburg porcelain tête à tête made for a princess

Auction 1242 - overview Berlin
20.04.2024, 11:00 - The Berlin Sale
Estimate: 8.000 € - 10.000 €
Result: 25.200 € (incl. premium)
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A St. Petersburg porcelain tête à tête made for a princess

Comprising a tray, coffee pot, teapot and sugar bowl with original lids, milk jug and a pair of cups and saucers. All pieces inscribed with the gilt monogram ISM beneath a crown. Blue cyrillic mark EII (for JEkaterina II); cups, saucers and sugar pot with additional gold star; coffee pot with one gold star; tray with inscised marks "No-I" and "13". A yellowed restoration to a vertical crack to the neck of the coffee pot. H coffee pot with lid 17.7, W tray 34.5 cm.
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory St. Petersburg, around 1794.

According to repute, this service was a gift from Tsarina Catherine II to mark the birth of Princess Ida of Saxe-Meiningen, daughter of the reigning Duke George I and his wife Luise Eleonore, née Princess Hohenlohe-Langenburg, on 25th July 1794.

Provenance

According to tradition, a gift to the court of Saxe-Meiningen.

From a family estate in Lower Saxony, sold Lempertz Cologne auction 597 in November 1983, lot 645.