NICHOLAS I LIFEGUARDS LANCERS REGIMENT PORCELAIN PLATTER
Lotto 155
40 00050 000
Imperial Porcelain Factory, Russia, Saint Petersburg, 1849.
porcelain, polychrome painting, gold floral ornament reverse marked with blue overglaze «NI» under the crown, the inscription in Cyrillic in black by hand «Life Guards. Hussar regiment. 1849»
Diameter: 27 cm.
Provenance:
Sotheby’s New York, 1980s
Private collection
A similar slightly smaller platter with the same border decoration is in a collection of Russian Porcelain in Hillwood Museum, Washington DC. Period of Nicholas I