PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE ITALIAN COLLECTION
A PORCELAIN CHARGER
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I
Details
A PORCELAIN CHARGER
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I
Circular, the centre painted with officers from the Life-Guards Hussar His Majesty's Regiment, two mounted and others on foot, within gilt cavetto and sky-blue border, with gilt rim, marked under base with blue underglaze factory mark and indistinctly inscribed in Cyrillic
15½ in. (39.3 cm.) diameter
Provenance
Acquired in Russia in the 1930s, by the Italian ambassador to Russia.
By descent to the present owner.