Lot Details
Lot 127
Two Berlin (K.P.M.) Porcelain Plates with Russian Scenes
Third quarter 19th century
Circular, with scalloped rim, the borders centering the Cyrillic cypher AV beneath Russian Imperial Crown and decorated with alternating green and red lozenges amid gilt scrolling foliage on a white ground, the centers painted with the Church of the Annunciation of the Horse Guards Regiment in St. Petersburg and the Church of St. Nicholas on the Ilyinka in Moscow. Diameter 9 7/8 inches (25 cm).
An architectural landmark built in the 1680s in the Kitai-Gorod section of Moscow, St. Nicholas Church, known as the Great Cross, was demolished in 1933.
C Property from a West Coast Private Collection
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