Lot 572
  • 572

A Military Porcelain plaque, Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, period of Nicholas I (1825-1855), dated 1837

Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Porcelain, gilt
  • 23.5 by 28cm, 9 1/4 by 11in.
finely painted with a group of infantry soldiers resting, signed in Cyrillic lower right N.Astafiev and dated 1837, with blue Imperial cipher for Nicholas I and impressed Imperial eagle 

Provenance

Sotheby's London, 29 April 1999, lot 379

Condition

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