A Porcelain Military Plate
by the Imperial Porcelain Factory, St Petersburg, period of Nicolas I, dated 1844
Circular, the centre painted in sepia with a portrait of General Uvarov, facing left, in military uniform, wearing the breast-star and badge of the Imperial Russian Military Order of St. George and other decorations including the breast-stars of the Imperial Russian Orders of Sts. Alexander Nevskii and Vladimir, the Imperial Russian 1812 Campaign Medal, within a gilt ciselé border decorated with Imperial eagles and military trophies, the base inscribed in Russian ‘The Cavalry General Feodor Petrovich Uvarov. 1844. M: Kriukov’, marked under base with blue underglaze crowned cypher ‘N I’
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) diameter