ST. PETERSBURG PORCELAIN PLATES ‘VIEW OF THE RED GATE IN MOSCOW’ AND ‘VIEW OF THE TRINITY LAVRA OF ST. SERGIUS’, 20TH CENTURY

Marks: ‘Imperial Porcelain / St Petersburg / 1744’; inscribed in Cyrillic and numbered (on the underside). Limited editions: 50/500 and 68/500. D. 26.5 cm (each) The original plates were presented to Emperor Nicholas I as a Christmas gift in 1848 and formed part of a dessert service decorated with views, now in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum.