Lot 570
  • 570

A Military Porcelain plaque, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), dated 1846

Estimate
50,000 - 70,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Porcelain, gilt
  • 24.5 by 33.3cm, 9 5/8 by 13 1/8 in.
finely painted with Nicholas I and his entourage reviewing the Life-Guards of the Ulanskii regiment, inscribed in Latin lower left Ladurner, signed in Cyrillic lower right I. Saveliev and dated 1846, with blue Imperial cipher for Nicholas I and gilt signature

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 19 February 1998, lot 275

Condition

In very good overall condition. Held in a wooden frame.
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Catalogue Note

Another version of Ladurner's painting reproduced on porcelain painted by Nikolai Frolov is in the collection of The State Peterhof Museum Reserve, illustrated, V. Znamenov et al, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory 1744 -1904, Global View and Sankt-Peterburg Orchestra, St Petersburg, Moscow, 2008, p. 355.