Lot Essay
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PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART II
AN IMPORTANT PORCELAIN MILITARY PLAQUE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1845
Details
AN IMPORTANT PORCELAIN MILITARY PLAQUE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1845
Rectangular, painted with the Guard Sapper Battalion, inscribed in Russian on the reverse 'To the Duke of Darmstadt' signed in Cyrillic and dated 'I. Savel’ev, 1845, [after] Ladurner' (lower left and right), framed, marked on reverse with blue factory mark
9½ x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm.)
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I, 1845
Rectangular, painted with the Guard Sapper Battalion, inscribed in Russian on the reverse 'To the Duke of Darmstadt' signed in Cyrillic and dated 'I. Savel’ev, 1845, [after] Ladurner' (lower left and right), framed, marked on reverse with blue factory mark
9½ x 13 in. (24 x 33 cm.)
Provenance
Collection of M. Pierre Hayet, circa 1929.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 30 November 1982, lot 23 (part).
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 30 November 1982, lot 23 (part).
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Catalogue de l'Exposition de Céramiques Russes Anciennes, Paris, 1929, listed and illustrated p. 6, no. 140 (part).
Exhibited
Sèvres, Musée Céramiques de Sèvres, L'Exposition de Céramiques Russes Anciennes, April-October 1929, no. 140 (part).
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