Rare porcelain dinner plate from the Alexandrinsky service, made by the Imperial Porcelain Factory in 1900.

One of the last palace services, it was commissioned in 1899 by Empress Alexandra Feodorovna for the Winter Palace. The service was named the Alexandrinsky after its royal customer, Empress Alexandra. Its second name the Turquoise Service is explained by the character of its decor designed to imitate the famed Sevres porcelain. The service was modelled after the Sevres original of 1783-84. See Russian Imperial Porcelain by T. Kudriavtseva, St. Petersburg, 2003, page 208.

The Alexandrinsky service comprised only 1,290 plates of different kinds. Dinner plates were decorated with oak garlands, dessert plates with floral wreathes.

Diameter 10 in. (25 cm)

Excellent condition. No restoration.

The turquoise-ground border is decorated with gilded oak garlands and three reserves painted with exotic birds.

Green factory mark in the form of Nicholas II cipher, dated ‘1900’.