BY THE POPOV FACTORY, CIRCA 1815

Details

A PORCELAIN CUP AND SAUCER WITH A PORTRAIT OF ATAMAN COUNT M. I. PLATOV
by the Popov Factory, circa 1815
The cylindrical cup painted with an oval grisaille within a ciselé wreathed border inscribed in Russian Count Platov, on white ground and flanked by gilt trophies of arms, with gilt rims, scroll handle and interior sides, the saucer on a circular raised foot and with a central containing ridge above, three further tropies of war, victory and music painted in ochre in the border with gilt details and banding, the cup with incised mark and '17', the saucer with gilt monogram 'AP' and '61'
the cup 2 3/8 in. (6.2 cm.) high

Exhibited

Moscow, State Historical Museum, War and Peace 1812, an Exhibition from private domestic and foreign Collections, December 2008 - March 2009, no. 326 (3).

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Lot Essay

The portrait of Count Platov on the cup is based on an engraving by E. I. V. Cardelli after a painting by J. Rombauer, see: A. V. Morozov, Catalogue of Collection of Russian enraved and lithograph Portraits, vol. 3, Moscow, 1913, column 948, no. 28, pl. CCCXLVI.

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