A St. Petersburg porcelain soup plate from the Raphael Service, 1892

A St. Petersburg porcelain (Imperial Porcelain Factory) soup plate from the Raphael Service, 1892, the centre painted en grisaille with a hexagonal panel of an angel, within a classical frieze border with three red-ground roundels of putti, gilt rim and foot, Imperial cypher for Tsar Alexander III and date 1892 , 24cm diameter