Frog Service
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The Frog Service or Green Frog Service is a large dinner and dessert service made by the English pottery company Wedgwood for Empress Catherine the Great of Russia, and completed in 1774. The service
The green frog carried on every piece. According to Josiah Wedgwood's Victorian biographer "he was very unwilling to disfigure the service with this reptile [sic], but was told it was not to be dispensed with".
Serving-plate with Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire, Birmingham Museum of Art
Detail of tureen with view of Longford Castle, Hermitage Museum
Dish, ladle and saucer with "husk" border, Wedgwood, c. 1780
Chesme Church
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The Chesme Church, is a small Russian Orthodox church at 12 Lensoveta Street, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was built by the Russian court architect Yury Felten in 1780, at the direction of Catherin
Frog Service
…her husband that had brought her to the throne. Another brother was present at the battle. Catherine decided to celebrate the victory by building the Chesme Palace. This was supposedly designed as a stopover to break the journey between St Petersburg and her summer palace at Tsarskoe Selo. Since the site chosen…
Church of St John the Baptist Chesme, Russia
Chesme Church in Saint Petersburg, interior nowadays (2014)
Close architectural view of the Chesme Church
Chesme Palace opposite Chesme Church - under reconstruction (2015)