Saucer with the image of a Ural Cossack (after the drawing by Aleksander Orłowski)
Saucer with the image of a Ural Cossack (after the drawing by Aleksander Orłowski)
England, Staffordshire
First third of the 19th century
Faience; under glaze printing, over glaze painting
Height 3.3 cm, diameter of the upper edge 14.2 cm
Faience round saucer with high welt on ring-shaped base. Monochrome printed image of an Ural Cossack from Civil home guard of the Patriotic War of 1812 period, armed with a spear and a rifle is on the center of the saucer bottom. The engraving of 1813 made by an unknown English engraver and published in London based on drawing by the artist Aleksander Orłowski was the pattern for t it. The picture and the saucer welt emphasized with the black layer.
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