A circular porcelain military plate, the cavetto painted with troops of the Crown Prince of Prussia 11th Izyumsky and His Imperial Highness Friedrich Karl of Prussia 12th Akhtyrsky Hussar Regiments by I.Khomievnikov 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: Гусарские полки: 11-й Изюмский Наследного Принца Прусского и 12-й Ахтырский Его Королевского Высочества Принца Фридриха Карла Прусского / С карт Пиратского И.Хомиевников / 73 (Hussar Regiments: Crown Prince of Prussia 11th Izyumskiy and His Imperial Highness Friedrich Karl of Prussia 12th Akhtyrskiy / After a painting by Piratsky by I.Khomievnikov / 73).
11th & 12th Hussar Regiments Military Plate
Imperial Porcelain Factoryafter Karl Piratsky (1813-1889)
reference number: PG_024
1873, 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, 73