Antique Russian topographical porcelain plate with a view of the Peterhof palace and the Grand cascade fountains,

made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory (St. Petersburg) around 1844 and intended for the Grand Duchess Olga dowry.

Diameter 9 1/4 in. (23 cm)

No restoration. Excellent condition.

Provenance: Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1827-1892), daughter of Czar Nicholas I.

Beautiful pink-ground border with gilt-tooled laurel wreath and elaborately molded sea shells.

Russian inscription reads: A View of the Peterhof Palace.

Blue factory mark in the form of Nicholas I cipher. Painter’s initial ‘O’.