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A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE COUNT RUMIANTSEV-ZADUNAISKI SERVICE, MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF CATHERINE THE GREAT (1762-1796), CIRCA 1732-1773
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A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE COUNT RUMIANTSEV-ZADUNAISKI SERVICE, MEISSEN PORCELAIN FACTORY, PERIOD OF CATHERINE THE GREAT (1762-1796), CIRCA 1732-1773
the cavetto painted with the Count’s crowned monogram within a garland of gilt laurel, palm leaves and a ribbon of the Order of St George, the border with roses within gilt trellis, with blue factory mark
diameter 24.4cm, 9½in.
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Count Piotr Alexandrovich Rumiantsev-Zadunaiski (1725-1796) was one of the most important Russian generals during the reign of Catherine The Great. He governed Little Russia in the name of Empress Catherine the Great from 1764 until her death in 1796. Monuments to his victories include the Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo (1772) and the Rumyantsev Obelisk on Vasilievsky Island (1798–1801).
In 1770, he became a Field Marshal and received the order of St George first class.
For a comparable plate from the service, see Exhibition catalogue, Meissen for the Czars: Porcelain as a Tool of Saxon-Russian Politics in the 18th century, Munich, 2004, p. 132.