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