Porcelain Plate, Kornilov Factory, 19th Century

Description

With a hand painted view of the Kamennostrovsky Island Palace, after the painting by Semyon Schedrin, within gilt borders, the rim with a red outer band between gilt borders, monogram S and crown on top.

26.2 cm diam.

The crowned monogram S may stand for a member of the Stroganov family, from whose country house the view of Kamennostrov is taken.

For the painting View onto the Stone Island Palace seen from the Country House of Count A.S. Stroganov, 1803, by Semyon Schedrin, s. Russian Museum Catalogue, St. Petersburg, A Portrait of the City and its Citizens, 2003, ill.p.79, No.124. For a print after the painting, dated 1807 and dedicated to Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna, by Stepan Filippovic Galaktionov, s. Grafika S.F. Galaktionova, exh.cat. Leningrad 1984, pp.5-6, 19, no.7