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