4 June 2014
    
        
        IMPERIAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, PERIOD OF NICHOLAS I (1825–1855)                 
        Diameter 23.5 cm.
        12,000–18,000 GBP
    
Circular, the cavetto finely painted with a group of  two officers, a private soldier and a trumpeter resting in camp, within gilt band, the green border gilt and ciselé with alternating Imperial eagles and military trophies, the foot also gilded, the reverse inscribed in Cyrillic “Third Infantry Cadets, Eight’s Division, Non-Commissioned Officer of  the Count Dibich-Zabalkanskiy Regiment, Company Officer of  Poltava regiment Infantry Regiment, Private Soldier of  Aleksopolsk Infantry Regiment, Trumpeter of  Kremenchug Infantry Regiment. N. Yakovlev, 1838”, with black Imperial cipher for Nicholas I.
                
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