DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF FIVE
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." There is a thin, polished gold band decorating the foot of the plate.
- Object name:
- DINNER PLATE FROM THE COTTAGE SERVICE, ONE OF FIVE
- Made from:
- Porcelain
- Made in:
- Saint Petersburg, Russia
- Date made:
- 1893
- Size:
- 3.7 × 23.5 cm (1 7/16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 25.554.2
- Signature marks:
- inscription [Cyrillic cursive] Za vieru tsaria i Otechestvo. Written in black on the gold band forming the outer edge of the shield Translation: "For Faith, Tsar and Fatherland" mark and date [Neo-Slavonic crowned cipher of Alexander III] 93 Stamped in green underglaze on underside of plate near foot. inscription [2 hatch marks on foot of plate] In green underglaze paint Probably a painter's mark for identifying piecework.
- Credit line:
- Museum Purchase, 1997