BREAD AND SALT DISH

Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)

On view in: Russian Porcelain Room

About this object

In the center of the plate is the coat of arms of the city of Tula: a red shield with crossed sword blades with a gun barrel in gray and two golden hammers. Placed against a lavender medallion, the shield is draped with a green laurel wreath and topped by a city crown on the form of a stylized crenelated stone wall. Cornucopias - one filled with wheat, the other with flowers - flank the medallion. Encircling the whole is a gold band about which entwines a vine with red berries. On the rim a band of linked ovals containing rosettes is broken in four places: at the top and bottom by the Tula coat of arms and at either side by a caduceus.

Object name:

BREAD AND SALT DISH

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date made:

1787

Size:

44 cm (17 5/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.252

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK back: E II for Catherine II with a dot in underglaze blue (for the Imperial Porcelain Factory); impressed 4 and I near foot Tula arms coat of arms coat of arms of Tula

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973