“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.
The Russian porcelain dinner service is in general in good and original condition. We have not noticed any restorations and it could be in need of a gentle hand wash. Here and there we have noticed minimal worn gilding and fiiring spots. We have noticed this:
- Minor tazza with worn blue in cartouches - Circular bowl with minimal worn gilding - Large tazza with worn blue on one kartouche, minimal chip on edge some fiiring spots, one hair tear - Two oval serving dishes with few fiiring spots - Two circular serving dishes with few fiiring spots - Two more flat dinner plates with one rim chip each - One lunch plate with one rim chip and one base ring chip - Four lunch plates with one rim chip each - One soup olate with rim one rim chip and a tear - One soup plate with one fiiring tear - One more deep dinner plate with a base ring chip - One more deep dinner plate with two rim chips - Two more deep dinner plates with one rim chip each - One more deep dinner plate with fiiring tears - One more deep dinner plate with two rim chips and one hair tear
The different parts are from these periods -
Pieces from the period of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1825–1855): A pair of circular serving dishes A pair of oval serving dishes One circular bowl One large tazza One circular bowl Two lunch plates One high base (the large bowl missing)
Pieces from the period of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1894–1917): One oval bowl on low base 1898 One minor tazza 1907 Two more deep dinner plates 1895 Two more deep dinner plates 1898 Six more deep dinner plates 1900 One more deep dinner plate 1905 One more deep dinner plate 1906 Seven more deep dinner plates 1907 Two more deep dinner plates 1910 One flat dinner plate 1898 One flat dinner plate 1904 One flat dinner plate 1906 Three soup plates 1895 One soup plate 1896 Two soup plates 1900 Two soup plates 1907 Four soup plates 1910 Two lunch plates 1895 One lunch plate 1900 Two lunch plates 1906
Pieces from the period of Tsar Alexander III of Russia (1881–1894): Two lunch plates 1892 Two lunch plates 1893
Pieces from Kornilov Borthers Porcelain Factory (1861–1884): One sauce terrine with lid and saucer
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