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A RARE PORCELAIN PLATE FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE
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A RARE PORCELAIN PLATE FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1893

Closed5 June 2017

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A RARE PORCELAIN PLATE FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE
BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER III, 1893
Circular, with gilt ciselé and blue border, the centre painted with a regimental drum, surmounted by a cuirass and dates marking the regiment's history, with the Russian inscription 'For excellence in the defeat and expulsion of the enemy from the borders of Russia in 1812 by Her Majesty's Cuirassier Guards Regiment', marked under base with underglaze green factory mark
8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) diameter

Specialist note

The regiment depicted on the present plate was originally formed in 1704, under the name Porte's dragoon regiment. In 1708 the regiment was named Nevskii Dragoon. It was reformed in 1733 as the Life Cuirassier regiment. Between 1831 and 1855 it is referred to as the Life Cuirassier regiment of His Majesty the Heir Tsarevich, and in 1856 it finally became known as the Cuirassier Guards of Her Majesty.