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The Tsar directed that the service should be in the \"old Russian taste\" and as such it marks an important point in the revival of traditional motifs in Russian decorative arts. The designer of the service was Fedor Solntsev (1801-92), a young graduate of the Academy of Arts, who was sent by the Academy's Director, Aleksi Olenin, to make drawings of treasures in the Kremlin Armoury to use in its design.  Many of his drawings were later published, including one depicting a seventeenth century Turkish metal washbasin, richly enamelled with radiating palmettes that was clearly used as the inspiration for the dinner plates in the service, as well as for the larger hors d'oeurvres dishes and tazzas. The service was intended to be for five hundred place settings and to include two thousand dinner and one thousand each of soup and dessert plates, although it is not known if it was completed in its entirety.  It was used at the Great Kremlin Palace (completed in 1847) for coronation, diplomatic and ecclesiastical banquets.\n\nThe dessert plates from the Kremlin service are decorated with a completely different design, including the Russian double-headed eagle and the inscription 'Nicholas, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias'.  As well as a pair at Hillwood, there is one in the collections of the British Museum, M&amp;ME 1992,7-8,1.\n\nAnne Odom and Liana Paredes Arend.  <u>A Taste for Splendour: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum</u>.  Alexandria, Virginia, USA: Art Services International, 1998.  Published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Hillwood Museum.  See cat. no. 133: Pair of dessert plates from the Kremlin service.","physicalDescription":"Plate, extensively gilded and with enamelled decoration depicting radiating pine trees","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Solntsev, Fedor","id":"A27991"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"x36960"},"note":"1801-92"}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Imperial Porcelain Factory","id":"A5583"},"association":{"text":"manufacturer","id":"x33306"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"porcelain","id":"AAT10662"}],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"Porcelain with enamelled decoration and gilt","categories":[{"text":"Porcelain","id":"THES48907"},{"text":"Ceramics","id":"THES48982"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"CER","id":"THES48594"},"images":["2009CP2901"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"139 (VA)","id":"THES49874"},"free":"","case":"29","shelf":"3","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Dessert plate","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Russia","id":"x29110"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1837-47","earliest":"1837-01-01","latest":"1847-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[{"object":{"text":"C.4-2009","id":"O251539"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"C.5-2009","id":"O251538"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"C.6-2009","id":"O251537"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"C.7-2009","id":"O251536"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"C.8-2009","id":"O251535"},"association":"Set"},{"object":{"text":"C.9-2009","id":"O251534"},"association":"Set"}],"creditLine":"Given by Daryl Logan","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"3.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Diameter","value":"23.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"HI under a crown","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"Cyrilic NI for Tsar Nicholas I","transliteration":"","type":"","note":"printed in underglaze blue"}],"objectHistory":"See object file C.3-2009 for Solntsev drawing from Hillwood Museum catalogue (see below)","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"From the 'Kremlin Service', porcelain with enamelled and gilded decoration, commissioned by Tsar Nicholas I from the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, 1837-47","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Christie's March 21, 1967"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Anne Odom and Liana Paredes Arend. <u> A Taste for Splendour: Russian Imperial and European Treasures from the Hillwood Museum</u>.  Alexandria, Virginia: Art Services International, 1998, published in conjunction with the exhibition at the Hillwood Museum.  See cat. No. 133: Pair of plates from the Kremlin service.  This pair are from the desert set but all parts of the service are discussed.  The printed designs for the service were published by the designer Fedor Solntsev in<i> Drevnosti rossiiskogo gosudartsva</i> (1846-53), the Turkish enamelled metal washbasin whose design of radiating palmettes was used for the dinner plates is illustrated fig. 122.\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["C.3-2009"],"accessionNumberNum":"3","accessionNumberPrefix":"C","accessionYear":2009,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-08-06","recordCreationDate":"2009-06-24","availableToBook":false}}