A Saint Petersburg porcelain cloche from the wedding service for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
A Saint Petersburg porcelain cloche from the wedding service for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
Shallow oval cloche with a pinecone finial on a high basal rim. The border decorated with four rose tendrils on brown ground reserved on gold. Unmarked. H 16.1, W 29.3 cm.
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory Saint Petersburg, after 1799.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (1786 - 1859) was one of the daughters of Tsar Paul I and Tsarina Maria Fjordorovna, née Princess Sopie Dorothee of Württemberg. She married Prince Carl Friedrich, heir to the throne of Saxony-Weimar, in St Petersburg on 3rd August 1804. This cloche originates from the service commissioned from the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory of St Petersburg on occasion of their wedding.
The two elder Romanov sisters received very similar wedding services in 1799. Alexandra Pavlovna married Grand Duke Joseph of Austria on 13th October 1799 and, shortly after, Princess Jelena Pavlovna married Prince Friedrich Ludwig, heir to the throne of Mecklenburg, on 23rd October 1799. Items from the Mecklenburg service can be found in the state museums of Schwerin, Ludwigslust, and Güstrow. It is probable that Tsar Paul commissioned all three services from the manufactory some time after 1799, since many of the pieces bear his mark in underglaze blue, which was presumably no longer used following his assassination in 1801.
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Private ownership, Berlin.
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For more on the history of the so-called cabinet service, cf. cat.: 250 Jahre Lomonossow Porzellanmanufaktur St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg 1994, p. 20 f.
Cf. also cat.: "Ihre Kaiserliche Hoheit" Maria Pawlowna Zarentochter am Weimarer Hof, Munich-Berlin 2004, illus. 056. Wasilissa Pachomova-Göres has counted over 1000 items of crockery with which it was possible to lay a table for 80 people (ibid. p. 60).
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A Saint Petersburg porcelain cloche from the wedding service for Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna
Shallow oval cloche with a pinecone finial on a high basal rim. The border decorated with four rose tendrils on brown ground reserved on gold. Unmarked. H 16.1, W 29.3 cm.
Imperial Porcelain Manufactory Saint Petersburg, after 1799.
Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna Romanova of Russia (1786 - 1859) was one of the daughters of Tsar Paul I and Tsarina Maria Fjordorovna, née Princess Sopie Dorothee of Württemberg. She married Prince Carl Friedrich, heir to the throne of Saxony-Weimar, in St Petersburg on 3rd August 1804. This cloche originates from the service commissioned from the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory of St Petersburg on occasion of their wedding.
The two elder Romanov sisters received very similar wedding services in 1799. Alexandra Pavlovna married Grand Duke Joseph of Austria on 13th October 1799 and, shortly after, Princess Jelena Pavlovna married Prince Friedrich Ludwig, heir to the throne of Mecklenburg, on 23rd October 1799. Items from the Mecklenburg service can be found in the state museums of Schwerin, Ludwigslust, and Güstrow. It is probable that Tsar Paul commissioned all three services from the manufactory some time after 1799, since many of the pieces bear his mark in underglaze blue, which was presumably no longer used following his assassination in 1801.
Provenance
Private ownership, Berlin.
Literature
For more on the history of the so-called cabinet service, cf. cat.: 250 Jahre Lomonossow Porzellanmanufaktur St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg 1994, p. 20 f.
Cf. also cat.: "Ihre Kaiserliche Hoheit" Maria Pawlowna Zarentochter am Weimarer Hof, Munich-Berlin 2004, illus. 056. Wasilissa Pachomova-Göres has counted over 1000 items of crockery with which it was possible to lay a table for 80 people (ibid. p. 60).
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