MILITARY PLATE
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
In center is a soldier on horseback in his regimental costume and shooting a pistol. On the blanket under the horse's saddle is the cipher of Nicholas I. In the distance at the left is a bugler on horseback and on the right an officer on horseback with a drawn sword. The border is a gold rim engraved alternately with the double-headed eagle and a cluster with a helmet, sword, bugle, laurel, leaves, etc.
- Object name:
- MILITARY PLATE
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1834
- Size:
- 23.5 cm (9 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.327
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION; MARK back: cipher of Nicholas I; Imperial crown; Soldat du Rt. de la Garde des Hussards de Grodno; 1834; N. Iakovlev; X 1
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973