A circular porcelain military plate, the cavetto painted with Dragoon regiments of His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Konstantin Nicholayevich 5th Kargopolsky and Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna 6th Glukhovsky dragoon regiments by N.Dudin 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: 5-й Каргопольский Е.И.В Великого Князя Константина Николаевича и 6-й Глуховский Е.И.В Великой / Княгини Александры Иосифовны / С карт Пиратского И.Дудин / 72 (Dragoon regiments His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Konstantin Nicholayevich 5th Kargopolsky and Her Imperial Highness Grand Duchess Alexandra Iosifovna 6th Glukhovsky dragoon regiments / After a painting by Piratsky by N.Dudin / 72).
5th & 6th Dragoon Regiments Military Plate
Imperial Porcelain Factoryafter Karl Piratsky (1813-1889)
reference number: PG_017
1872, 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, 72