A circular porcelain military plate, the cavetto painted with troops of the 3rd Infantry Division by P.Daladugin after a painting by Pyotr Balashov 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: 3-я Пехотная Дивизия / С карт. Балашова. П.Даладугин / 74 (3rd Infantry Division / After a painting by Balashov by P.Daladugin / 74).
3rd Infantry Division Military Plate
Imperial Porcelain Factoryafter Pyotr Balashov (1853-1888)
reference number: IP_010
1874, period of Alexander II (1856-1881)
porcelain
diameter: 25 cm
marked on the reverse slightly off centre with a green crowned cypher of Alexander II and another blue crowned cypher of Alexander II in the very centre, 74