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Lot 70
  • 70

A Russian Porcelain Plate from a Military Service, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, Period of Alexander II (1855-1881), dated 1875

Estimate
27,000 - 40,000 USD
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Description

  • the reverse titled in Cyrillic Uhlans Brigades: E.N. [sic] V. Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich's 13th Vladimirskii and His Royal Highness Prince Friedrich Wurttemburg's 14th Yamburgskii, from a painting by Piratskii, signed V. Kirsanov, and dated 1875; also with green and blue Imperial cyphers of Alexander II

  • porcelain
  • diameter 9 3/4 in.
  • 24.8 cm
the cavetto painted realistically with a scene of a group of officers of the 13th Vladimirskii and 14th Yamburgskii regiments of the Uhlans Brigades in parade uniforms stopped in conversation, two of them on foot and four on horseback, the lilac/lavender border with gilded ribbon-tied laurel and oak wreath, the branches divided by the Russian Imperial State Seal of a black double-headed eagle on a yellow ground.

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, December 12, 1986, lot 200, illustrated

Condition

minor rubbing to gilding
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Catalogue Note

The fine gradations of tone and bright colors of this multifigural composition attest to Imperial Porcelain Manufactory painter V. Kirsanov's ability to communicate the fine details of painter Karl Karlovich Piratskii's (1813-1871) original view of these members of the Uhlan Regiments. Although Piratskii was a Court Artist to Nicholas I and a prolific military painter, today his best known works are his original illustrations for redesigned uniforms worn by the Russian Army after Emperor Alexander II's military reforms of 1855-1856.