A set of 18 antique porcelain plates

comprising

six appetizer plates,

six soup plates,

and six dinner plates.

Condition: no chips, no cracks, some plates may have minor rubbing on rims.

Porcelain plates specially made for the 1901 wedding of Grand Duchess Olga Alexandrovna (sister of Nicholas II) of Russia. The plates are unmarked.

A Very Rare Service

A footed bowl from this service is published in the Peterhof museum catalog, 1999, page 206.

Grand Duchess Olga and her husband Prince of Oldenburg (photo 1901).

Decorated with Cyrillic ciphers ‘O’ (for Olga) and ‘P’ (for Peter, Prince of Oldenburg) beneath Russian Imperial crown. The cipher of Olga is placed within a rose wreath, the cipher of Prince Peter Alexandrovich – within a laurel wreath. The wreaths are tied together with a ribbon.

Czar Nicholas II and his younger sister Olga, circa 1896.