Grand Duchess Elizabeth (Ella) and Grand Duke Sergei (Serge)

A porcelain caviar dish from the blue service made for Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich (1857-1905, son of Tsar Alexander II, Governor of Moscow)
and his wife Grand Duchess Elizabeth (1864-1918, sister of Empress Alexandra Fedorovna),
with royal blue borders and gilded rims, decorated with two-tone gold conjoined Cyrillic monograms: ‘C’ for Sergei and ‘E’ for Elizabeth under the Russian Imperial crown
A similar dish from this service from the collection of the Hillwood museum (Washington, D.C.) is published in Russian Porcelains by Marvin C. Ross, page 403.

Length 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)