Cup and saucer
The portrait is of Czar Nicholas I (1796–1855). The inscription indicates that the cup and saucer were presented to the French ambassador to Saint Petersburg, Auguste-Frédéric Viess de Marmont, duc de Raguse, on the occasion of the czar's coronation.
Artwork Details
- Title: Cup and saucer
- Factory: Yusupoff Factory (Russian, 1814–1831)
- Date: 1826
- Culture: Russian, Arkhangelskoye
- Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions: Cup (.278): 3 7/8 × 4 in. (9.8 × 10.2 cm);
Saucer (.279): 1 1/8 × 6 1/4 in. (2.9 × 15.9 cm) - Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
- Credit Line: Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
- Object Number: 50.211.278, .279
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
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