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“The Banqueting Service for the Grand Peterhof Palace”. A remarkable large Russian porcelain dinner service, including several serving pieces, comprising 57 parts in total, painted with coloured floral motifs on white ground, gilt rim with blue cartouches. The Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg: Nine parts marked in underglaze blue Cyrillic H I for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1825–1855), four parts marked in underglaze green A III for Tsar Alexander III of Russia (1881–1894), 43 parts marked in underglaze green Cyrillic H II for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1894–1917). Finally, one part Kornilov Brothers Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg (1861–1884). (57). Comprising: - twenty-one more deep dinner plates (diam. 25 cm.) - three more flat dinner plates (diam. 25.3 cm.) - twelve deep soup plates (diam. 25 cm.) - elleven lunch plates (diam. 23 cm.) - a pair of oval serving dishes (L. 45 cm.) - a pair of circular serving dishes (diam. 37.5 cm.) - a large tazza (H. 25 cm., diam. 34.5 cm.) - a minor tazza (H. 15 cm., diam. 23.5 cm.) - an oval bowl on low base (L. 31.5 cm.) - a circular bowl (diam. 24.5 cm.) - a Kornilov sauce terrine with lid and saucer (H. 17.5 cm., L. 21.5 cm.) - furthermore a high base (the large bowl missing) included (H. 18 cm.) ”The Banqueting Service for the Grand Peterhof Palace” was commissioned during the reign of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia. The service was inspired by a mid-18th century French Sèvres service, which was given to King Christian VII of Denmark in 1768 from King Louis XV of France. The service supplemented during the later part of the 19th century and up until the early 20th century. The Grand Peterhof Palace, built in the early 18th century for Tsar Peter the Great, is situated outside St. Petersburg by the Gulf of Finland. Provenance: The Danish electrician and wholesaler, Ove Viborg-Larsen (b. Nyborg 1896, d. Sundby 1963) and his wife, Irina (Irma) Christine Ottilie Viborg-Larsen, née Vladimirovna Furman (b. Riga 1899, d. Copenhagen 1947). Ove Viborg-Larsen was stationed as an electrician for the Great Northern Telegraph Company in the 1920s in Skt. Petersburg, where the couple lived. Ove and Irina Viborg-Larsen visited several of the communist government's auctions, where items from the palaces of the Imperial Russian family were sold. Here, the couple acquired this dinnerware, which they brought with them to Denmark when they moved back to Ove Viborg-Larsen's birthplace in the 1930s. Irina Viborg-Larsen's sister, Lucia Johanna Vladimirovna Furman (b. St. Petersburg 1903, d. Copenhagen 1984), lived in St. Petersburg with her daughter, also named Lucia (the younger), who was born in St. Petersburg 1945. After Irina Viborg-Larsen's death, Ove Viborg-Larsen got his sister-in-law and niece to Denmark in 1956, and the same year he married Lucia Furman in Copenhagen, considering the niece Lucia the younger as his daughter. Lucia Viborg-Larsen and Lucia the younger became Danish citizens in 1959. Lucia the younger later married Aakesen and inherited the Russian dinnerware from her uncle and mother. Today, Lucia Aakesen lives on Amager Island outside Copenhagen. Condition Condition report available on request. Request condition report
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