A pair of Russian antique porcelain floral cabinet plates from the reign of Nicholas I

made at the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg around 1840, elaborately decorated with gilded foliage on four-color ground, centers painted with sprays of flowers.

Diameter 9 1/4 in. (23,3 cm)

Condition: one plate has an invisibly repaired small rim chip, some very minor rubbing to four small gilded garlands around the flowers, otherwise excellent.

Marked with cobalt blue cipher of Tsar Nicholas I