DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
Currently in storage
About this object
Plain white dinner plate with a narrow gold band at rim and on cavetto. A stylized floral ornament in gold in the center. The main decoration is the shield of the Gothic Cottage at the top of the plate with a sword piercing a wreath of white roses on a blue ground. On the gold band forming the outer edge of the shield is the inscription in Cyrillic: "For Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland."
- Object name:
- DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1901
- Size:
- 3.8 x 23.2 cm (1 1/2 x 9 1/8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.291.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- MARK and date [Cipher of Nicholas II under the imperial crown] 1901 mark [2 dots of green underglaze paint on foot of plate] Underside inscription [Cyrillic cursive] Za vieru tsaria i Otechestva Written in black on gold edge of shield, front of plate Translation: For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973