A circular porcelain military plate, the cavetto painted with a soldier and a trumpeter of the Horse Guard Regiment within a gilt border, the rim decorated with alternating military trophies and Russian double-headed eagles. The reverse inscribed in Italics in French: Soldat et Trompette du R’t des Chevaliers Garde.
Horse Guard Regiment Porcelain Military Plate
Imperial Porcelain Factoryreference number: IP_025
1836, period of Nicholas I (1825-1855)
porcelain
diameter: 24 cm
marked with a blue crowned cypher of Nicholas I (1825-1855), 1836, signed N.Yakovlev