the cavetto with a large pink rose blossom and several buds on a leafy branch, the border with a continuous stylized gilt foliate wreath

some rubbing to gilding and paint, some slight discoloration to one rosebud; several chips to the foot and some discoloration on the reverse
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The library of Prince Nikolai Yusupov (1750-1831) is known to have included all three volumes of Pierre-Joseph Redouté's (1759-1840) Les Roses (Paris, 1817-1824). Almost as soon as the publication was completed and Yusupov had acquired all three volumes, work was begun on a series of cabinet plates with copies after each type of rose shown. Between 1824 and 1827, painters at the Yusupov Porcelain Atelier completed at least two sets of the Rose Series plates. The first full set depicting the plates in all three albums was finished between 1824 and 1826. Between 1826 and 1827 most, and possibly all, of the designs were repeated. The first series bears only the inscription Archangelski in French or Russian and the date on the reverse, while the second includes the volume and page number from Redouté. Nadezhda Berezhnaya speculates that the second series was a special order intended as a gift for one of the erudite connoisseurs who populated Prince Yusupov's inner circle. On this series of plates, see N. Berezhnaya, Iusupovskii farfor. Izdeliia farforovogo zavedeniia kniazia N.B. Iusupova v Arkhangel'skom, Moscow, 2009, pp. 76-91, 224-239.