Provenance
Grand Duchess Xenia of Russia
Exhibitions
Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, Wilmington, Delaware, 9 Sept 2000 – 18 Feb 2001, no. 130
Bibliography
G. von Habsburg, A. von Solodkoff, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p.96
Silver dinner plate with the rim chased with an oak leaf wreath, and the cavetto engraved with an Imperial double-headed eagle. Inscribed on the reverse in Cyrillic: “August 16, 1874-1899 from Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna”. Grand Duchess Xenia (1875-1960) was a daughter of Tsar Alexander III and sister of Tsar Nicholas II.
