“The Grand Peterhof Palace Banquet Service” - a selection of eight porcelain plates, decorated with flowers and stilyzed cabbage leaves in gold and colours. The Imperial Porcelain Manufactory; five larger plates marked Cyrillic N I for Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (1825–1855), three smaller plates marked Cyrillic N II for Tsar Nicholas II of Russia (1894–1917), hence one dated 1906 and two dated 1909. Diam. four à 23 cm, one à 24 cm and three à 18 cm. (8).
The banquet service was originally designed 1848–1853 for ceremonial dinners. Originally it was for 250 place sittings and later on supplemented.
Provenance: Johan Poul Quaade (b. Copenhagen 1888, d. Copenhagen 1958) and his wife, Xenia Ilinitchnaja Solonina (b. Kiev. 1895, d. Copenhagen 1986). Johan Quaade worked for the Great Northern Telegraph Company in Russia and married Xenia in 1913 in Minsk, daugter of a landowner and police officer in Kiev. Shortly after the wedding Johan and Xenia Quaade moved to St. Petersburg, but left Russia in 1918 due to the revolution and the civil war. First they went to Denmark, Johan's country of birth, but soon after to Turkey and Riga, where Johan Quaade set up as a businessman. In 1937–1938 they moved permanently to Denmark. The couple owned many Russian antiques and paintings, which they brought to Denmark from their earlier home in Russia, but also acquired from the many Russian refugees, whom they met on their way in Russia 1917–1918. Then by descent.
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Russia, furniture, varia, carpets, 4 June 2015