A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER

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A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER
with incised initials LI

The cylindrical cup decorated with profile portrait medallion of Count Wittgenstein, after Alois Rockstuhl, en grisaille, inscribed in Cyrillic within the gilt frame 'Count Wittgenstein' and signed on the right 'Rockstuhl f.', flanked by gilt trophies-of-arms and lilac sprays on white ground, on three gilt lion's-paw feet, partly gilt interior - the cup 3 in. (7.6 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

Count Piotr Khristianovich Wittgenstein (1769 - 1843) was General Field Marshal of the Russian Army and a hero of the 1812 Patriotic War. After the death of Kutuzov he became the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army.

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