A Porcelain Dinner Plate from the Raphael Service

A Porcelain Dinner Plate from the Raphael Service

By the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, Period of Alexander III

Circular, the centre decorated with Demeter and a putto painted en grisaille on a red ground in a hexagonal frame, on white ground, surrounded by a border of classical-style friezes with three red ground roundels, three cream ground interjections and six stylised panels, at intervals, within gilt banding, the panels with raised beading, decorated with monochrome mythical, stylised and realistic animals, gilt rim and foot, the reverse with paper label inscribed \'RUSSIAN IMPERIAL EXHIBIT\' attached, marked under base with gilt crowned monogram of Alexander III and dated 1887

9½ in. (24.5 cm.)