The 19th Infantry Division: a military porcelain plate, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Alexander III, 1886

the border gilt with ciselé laurel and oak wreaths culminating at an imperial double-headed eagle at the upper centre, the cavetto painted with the 19th Infantry Division, depicting four figures in the foreground, seated and standard, a soldier on horseback as well as multiple men marching in formation in the background, the division's composition inscribed on the reverse in Cyrillic:

73-i Pekhotnyi Krymskii E. I. V. Vel. Kn. Aleksandra Mikkhailovicha polk.

74-i ___Stavropol'skii polk.

75-i ___ Sevastopol'skii polk.

76-i ___ Kubanskii polk.

(73rd His Imperial Highness Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich’s Crimea Infantry Regiment

74^th Stavropol Infantry Regiment

75^th Sevastopol Infantry Regiment

76^th Kuban Infantry Regiment

19^th Artillery Brigade)

Inscribed under base to indicated painted by F. Tarachkov after Charlemagne, with green crowned cypher for Alexander III, signed and dated

diameter 24.6 cm; 9 3/4 in.