DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
Creator(s): Imperial Porcelain Factory (Manufacturer)
On view in: Russian Porcelain Room
About this object
Plain white dinner plate with four concentric, narrow polished gold bands decorating the rim, cavetto, and band. In the center of the plate is a stylized, classical floral in gold in the center. It is smaller and more ornate than those decorating the plates with two gold bands from the same service (25.291.1-2 and 25.554.1-5). 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." A transparent gray glaze has been carefully applied around the top, bottom and right sides of the shield to suggest shadowing and lend more depth to the image. There is a polished gold band decorating the foot.
- Object name:
- DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF TWO
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1884
- Size:
- 3.3 × 22.7 cm (1 5/16 × 8 15/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.294.2
- Class:
- CERAMICS
- Signature marks:
- INSCRIPTION [Cyrillic cursive] Za Vieru tsaria i Otechestvo. Written in black on gold band around shield. Translation: For Faith, Tsar, and Fatherland. mark [Three small dots in green underglaze inside foot near the accession number.] In green underglaze on underside, inside foot. These are probably painter's marks used to track piecework. mark and date [Neo-Slavonic cipher of Alexander III beneath the imperial crown] 84 Stamped in green underglaze
- Credit line:
- Gift of Mrs. Augustus Riggs, 1974