4 June 2014 Russian Art Auctions
4 June 2014
521. A PORCELAIN PLATE FROM THE MILITARY SERVICE
IMPERIAL PORCELAIN MANUFACTORY, PERIOD OF ALEXANDER II (1855-1881)
Diameter 24.5 cm.
12,000–18,000 GBP
Provenance: Anonymous sale; Russian Works of Art, Christie's London, 30 November 2005, lot 4.
Circular, the cavetto finely painted with a bugler saluting an officer of the Guard Dragoon Regiment on foot, further officers and a house in the background, the gilt border with moulded and incised with ribbon-tied branches of oak and laurel, surmounted by the Imperial arms, the foot also gilded, the reverse inscribed in Russian “His Highness’s Life Guards Dragoon Regiment. After the painting by Balashov, by A. Mironov, 1878”, with green Imperial cipher for Alexander II.
Notes on symbols:
* Indicates 5% Import Duty Charge applies.
Ω Indicates 20% Import Duty Charge applies.
§ Indicates Artist's Resale Right applies.
† Indicates Standard VAT scheme applies, and the rate of 20% VAT will be charged on both hammer price and premium.