A porcelain military plate, Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Alexander III, 1886
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October 17, 06:56 PM GMT
Estimate
9,000 - 13,000 USD
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Description
The border gilded and ciselé with a laurel wre🌞ath and oak wreath joined at the bottom centre by a bow-tied ribbon and meeting at the top centre with an imperial double-headed eagle, the cavetto painted after Charlemagne with soldiers on fo👍ot, the infantries and brigades of which are inscribed on the reverse in Cyrillic:
20 я Пехотная Дивизия С Артиллерией
77-й Пехотный Полк Е🦹го Императорского Величества Князя Алексея
лександровича
78 Пехотный Нагатинский Полк
79 Пехотный Куринский Полк Его Император🐬ского Величества Князя Павла Александровича
80 й Пехотный Кабарди🔯нский Генерала Фельдмаршала Князя Барятинского
20 Артиллерийская Бригада
С карт. Шарлеманя Ф. Тарачков
1886
Translation:
20th Infantry Division with Artillery
7♓7th Infantry Regiment of His Imperial Majesty Grand Duke Alexe♒i Alexandrovich
78th Infantry Nagatino Regiment
79th Infantrཧy𒐪 Regiment of His Imperial Majesty Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich
8🌊0th Infan♑try Kabardian General Field Marshal Duke Baryatinsky
20th Artillery Brigade
From a Charlemagne painting by F. Tarachkov
1886
signed on the reverse and stamped with green crowned imperial cypher for Alexander III, dated 1886
diameter 9 5/8 in.; 24.5 cm
Included in The Hammer Collection
Acquired from༺ the above by the family of the🅺 present owner.
Exhibition catalogue, The Hammer collection of Russian imperial art treasures : from the Winter Palace, Tsarskoye Selo and other royal palaces, 1933
New York, Hammer Galleries, The Hammer collection of Russian imperial art treasures: from the Winter Palace, Tsarskoye Selo and other royal palaces, 1933, no. 4
Fedor Tarachkov (1834-1898), a porcelain painter from a family of artists at the Imperial Porcelain Manufactory, specialised in historical and figure painting on porcelain, including vases, service ware and Easter eggs. He was appointed as a painter at the factory in 1850, an assistant master in 1854 and eventually rose to the rank of master in 1864💯. Throughout his time at the factory, Tarachkov won several gold and silver medals for his impressive work and distinguished services.
The present plate is painted after a painting by Adolf Charlemagne (18👍26-1901), one of Russia’s most renowned painters of his𓆉torical and battle scenes. He completed his training at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Fyodor Bruni and Bogdan Willewalde.
