Lot n° 368
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SERVICE OF THE YACHT LIVADIA FOR THE TABLE... - Lot 368 - Coutau-Bégarie
SERVICE OF THE YACHT LIVADIA FOR THE TABLE OF TSAR ALEXANDER II OF RUSSIA.
Imperial Manufacture, St. Petersburg, 1871-1873.
Hard porcelain dessert plate, round shape, with scalloped edge, decorated with a large frieze of chains and navy anchors interlaced in grisaille on a green background, alternated with a pink band and decorated on the upper part of a cartouche representing an imperial crown on a pink background surrounded by a border of pearls and two laurel branches held by a ribbon. Wear of time, small restoration on an edge. Green marks on the reverse: A. II. (Alexander II), under imperial crown. Diameter: 23 cm.
History: Designed in the 1870s by Hyppolyte Monighetti, this service was made for the yacht Livadia, itself designed in Nikolayev on the Black Sea coast and named after its permanent anchorage near the Livadia Palace. The Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg produced this service in the years 1871-1873. It consisted of a dinner and coffee service for 30 people with 72 soup plates, 180 dinner plates, 72 dessert plates, 72 cake plates, 12 large round dishes, 6 small dishes, 14 oval fish dishes, 4 soup tureens, 12 compote dishes of various sizes, 2 sugar pots, 2 salad bowls, 2 pedestal tables. The cabaret was composed of two trays, 4 large teapots, 4 small teapots, 4 coffee pots, 4 decoction pots, 4 creamers, 4 sugar pots, 60 tea cups, 60 coffee cups, 60 other cups, 20 water jugs, 20 wine decanters, 6 vodka decanters, 60 red wine glasses, 60 white wine glasses, 36 liqueur glasses, 48 champagne glasses, 60 water glasses, 60 other water glasses, 28 decoction jars with saucers, 10 sets for two piles of dishes.
The elements of this service are decorated in the Louis XVI style, matching the interior decoration of the yacht. After the sinking of the yacht in 1878, the remaining elements of the service were handed over to the Imperial Porcelain Factory and, in 1881, after being completed, were placed in the new yacht of the same name.
Reference: See Tamara Kudriavtseva, "Russian imperial porcelain", St. Petersburg, 2003, p. 185; a set of the same service is preserved in the reserves of the Peterhof Museum: Inv. Nos. ???? 3603- ?, ???? 3604- ?
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