MILITARY PLATE

Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)

On view in: Russian Porcelain Room

About this object

The plate has a royal blue border with seven chased gold eagles spaced around it. The initials FWR for Friedrich Wilhelm Rex are on the breasts of the single headed eagle, holding the orb and scepter. There is a gold band at the edge and another separates the blue from the painted center of the plate depicting an officer standing at left (the Jäger) in gray trousers with a red stripe and green coat and wearing a high black hat. On the right is a soldier on horseback with a blue coat and gray trousers. He is holding a weapon and has a sword at his side. They are posed in front of a ruin near a cliff.

Object name:

MILITARY PLATE

Made from:

Porcelain

Made in:

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Date made:

1830

Size:

23.7 cm (9 5/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

25.534

Class:

CERAMICS

Signature marks:

MARK; INSCRIPTION NI under crown in overglaze blue for Imperial Porcelain Factory 1825-1855; Black double headed eagle near foot in overglaze black (because it was a foreign gift?); Inscriptions 3te Juger (Jäger) Abteilung (Rifle Battalion) officer and 2tesa Dragoner (Dragoon) Regiment (gen. Prinz Wilhelm) 1830=; signed V. Elashchevkin in Cyrillic

Credit line:

Museum Purchase in Honor of Katrina V.H. Taylor on her 80th Birthday, 1992