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TWO PORCELAIN PLATES FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE
Lot 326 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CANADIAN COLLECTION

TWO PORCELAIN PLATES FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)

Closed27 November 2017

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TWO PORCELAIN PLATES FROM HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS CUIRASSIER GUARDS REGIMENT SERVICE

BY THE IMPERIAL PORCELAIN FACTORY, ST PETERSBURG, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)
Each 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 bases with underglaze green factory marks
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) diameter

Acquired by the mother of the present owner in Moscow in the 1950s.

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 Tsesarevich, and in 1856 it finally became known as the Cuirassier Guards of Her Majesty.