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PLATE FROM THE YUSUPOV SERVICE, ONE OF TWO

Creator(s): Nikolai Sultanov (Designer) , Unknown (Manufacturer)

Currently in storage


About this object

Patterns decorating the plate are from old Russian motifs in red, yellow, brown, green and white, mostly on a gold ground. In center is a medallion with a lion holding a shield of arms (Yusupov family coat-of-arms). Around this is a long inscription in cyrillic letters.

Object name:
PLATE FROM THE YUSUPOV SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
Made from:
Pottery
Made in:
Russia
Date made:
c. 1892
Size:
21.6 cm (8 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
27.2.2
Class:
CERAMICS
Signature marks:
MARK on back: in gold, crown and X with bar on top and 1 underneath INSCRIPTIONS Московского, что в огородникахъ, дома князей Юсуповыхъ 1892 [In Cyrillic and old Slavonic -- Muscovite home of the princes Yusupov in Ogorodniki]
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973