A PORCELAIN MILITARY PLATE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II

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A PORCELAIN MILITARY PLATE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II
Circular, the centre painted with two mounted and two standing officers of the Grodnensky Hussar Regiment by Vasilii Midin, the lilac borders with gilt edge and ribbon-tied laurel and oak surmounted by the Imperial coat-of-arms, marked under base with green underglaze and blue overglaze factory marks
9½ in. (24.1 cm.) diameter

来源

Basilewski collection.
Anichkov Museum, no. 7935.
By repute, acquired by the mother of the present owner in Leningrad in 1927-1928.

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The Russian inscription under base reads: 'The L[ife] Gu[ards] Grodnensky Hussar Regiment After the paint[ing] by Piratskii. Vas[ilii] Midin.' Also with the Anichkov Museum label attached on reverse and inscribed in Russian 'CITY MUSEUM Historical premises of the Anichkov palace. 0 N 7935 I' and another label inscribed 'BASILEWSKY Collection. LENINGRAD'.
The original drawings by K.K. Piratskii are now at the Russian Museum. For more information, see T.V. Kudriavtseva, Russkii Imperatorskii Farfor, St Petersburg, 2003, p. 174. For other examples of plates from the same service, see N. B. von Wolf (ed. V.V. Znamenov), Imperatorskii Farforovyi Zavod, 1744-1904, St Petersburg, 2008, pp. 552-553 and P. Schaffer, ed., An Imperial Fascination: Porcelain, Dining with the Czars, Peterhof, A La Vieille Russie, New York, 1991, pp. 73-74, pl.127.