PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT EUROPEAN COLLECTOR, PART III
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 officers and soldiers of Guard Lancers of His Majesty Regiment, within a border decorated with Imperial double-headed eagle and laurel and oak leaf wreath on a lilac ground, inscribed in Russian under base ‘After the pain[ting] by Piratskii’, signed in Cyrillic ‘A. Mironov’, marked under base with green underglaze factory mark and blue overglaze factory mark
9¾ in. (24.5 cm.) diameter