A circular porcelain military plate, the cavetto painted with troops of the Dragoon regiments: His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich 3rd Novorossiysky Regiment and Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Nicholayevna 4th Yekaterinoslavsky by A.Morozov after a painting by Karl Piratsky within a gilt border, the rim decorated with a gilt ciselé laurel and oak leaf wreath on a mauve ground, the top of the plate decorated with a Russian double-headed eagle within a yellow reserve. The reverse inscribed in Italics in Russian: Драгунские полки: 3й Новороссийский Е.И.В Велик: Князя Владимира Александровича и 4й Екатеринославский Е.И.В Великой Княгини / Марии Николаевны / С Карт. Пиратского А.Морозов / 74 (Dragoon Regiments: His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich 3rd Novorossiysky Regiment and Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Maria Nicholayevna 4th Yekaterinoslavsky / After a Painting by Piratsky by A.Morozov / 74).
3rd & 4th Dragoon Regiments Military Plate
Imperial Porcelain Factoryafter Karl Piratsky (1813-1889)
reference number: IP_016
1874, period of Alexander II (1856-1881)
porcelain
diameter: 25 cm
marked on the reverse slightly off centre with a faint green crowned cypher of Alexander II and another blue crowned cypher of Alexander II in the very centre, 74