A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN HORS D'OEUVRES PLATE FROM THE RAPHAEL SERVICE, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II (1894-1917)

A RUSSIAN PORCELAIN HORS D'OEUVRES PLATE FROM THE RAPHAEL SERVICE, IMPERIAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, ST. PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS II (1894-1917) the border decorated with panels with swans and antique heads among scrolls and foliage against an iron red ground framed within delicately beaded gilt bands alternating with medallions with figures of griffins and a nude boy en grisaille against a gray ground, all of this against a celadon green ground elaborated with a leafy vine en grisaille , the handle with smaller panels containing birds, butterflies, lyres and scrolls against a gray ground with gilt Imperial cypher mark and date 1903 length 11 1/16 in. 28 cm Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg