The Green Frog Service

1 lingua: inglese Legat. edit. in tela con sovrac. illustrata a col., cm 32x25, pag. 424, con centinaia di splendide illustrazioni e tavole a colori e in b.n. - A cura di Michael Raeburn, Ludmilla Voronikhina, Andrew Nurnberg - Edizione limitata di 1000 esemplari - Monografia sul celebre servizio prodotto da Josiah Wedgwood per l'imperatrice Caterina la Grande di Russia - Limited edition of 1000, 424 pages, over 350 large detailed illustrations, 60 colour plates and more than 1000 reference illustrations, presenting for the first time the entire service in colour and monochrome plates. The crowning achievement of the great English potter Josiah Wedgwood was a dinner and dessert service decorated with hand.painted views of England, Scotland and Wales, commissioned by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia. Known as the Green Frog Service, it provides one of the finest surviving pictorial records of 18th century Britain. Commissioned and produced in 1773, the Service was destined for a 'palace' Catherine was building in English Gothick style as a staging post between St Petersburg and her summer residence at Tsarskoe Selo. Surrounded by marshes, the palace was known as La Grenouillère, hence the device of a bright green frog that appears on every piece of the Service - Perfetto stato.