Beschreibung:

An Unusual and Rare Russian Porcelain Plate from a Military Service, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, St. Petersburg, 1829 the cavetto painted with a view of four members of the Imperial Palace Grenadiers standing in the Throne Room of Dowager Empress Maria Fedorovna in the Winter Palace, two ladies in white court dress can be seen disappearing through a doorway in the far distance; the border in tooled matte and burnished gold double-headed eagles representing one of the two versions of the State coat-of-arms during the reign of Nicholas I alternating with military trophies comprising the Grenadiers' distinctive bear skin hats with crossed rifle and saber set against a branch of laurel. the reverse titled Les Grenadiers du Palais, dated 1829, and signed by the painter P. Shchetinin; also with blue Imperial cypher of Nicholas I diameter 9 3/8 in. 24 cm