During the reign of the last Russian emperor, the Alexander Palace had a substantial collection of plates, commemorating the coronation of  Nicholas II and the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov. The plates were presented to the Emperor on the occasion of his coronation celebrations and during his travels around Russia.
  
In 1915, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna ordered 175 presentation plates to be placed in the hallway of the imperial family’s living quarters and in the entrance hall of the imperial palace. 
 
The plate on display was presented to the Emperor by the Tambov Merchant Society. There is an entry about this trip in the diary of Emperor Nicholas II dated 7 December 1914:

The plate is round, with carved floral rosettes in four roundels on the side, bordered by bands of geometric ornament and a wide rim of floral scrolls. On the “mirror” — as they call the flat part of the plate — there is a carved image of two birds with spread wings and wide tails, sitting on the curved branches of large leaves and flowers. Below is a round medallion with a flower rosette and bands of geometric ornament.

There are 8 presentation plates in the Tsarskoe Selo collection. Three of them have inventory numbers of the Alexander Palace Museum of the 1920s –1930s. One of them was donated to the Museum by a German citizen Kurt Ramge in 2010. The dish was taken from Russia by a relative of his who was stationed with the occupying forces near Leningrad in a palace in the city of Pushkin in 1941. Another plate, as follows from the pre-war inventory of the Alexander Palace Museum of the 1930s, had been in the corridor of the first entrance of the Alexander Palace and was donated to the museum by M. A. Revyakin.