A Meissen porcelain platter from the service for field marshal Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky
Marseille model. Decorated in the centre with the crowned CR monogram of Comte Rumyantsev surrounded by a wreath of reeds and oak tied with the striped ribbon of the Order of Saint George. The rim with small purple camaieu bouquets in three reserves. Blue crossed swords mark with dot, dreher's number 34. Restorations to the rim between 11 and 12 o'clock. D 30.7 cm.
Circa 1774.
Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky (1725 - 1796) was supreme commander of the Russian army during the Ottoman Wars in 1770. He led his troops to victory in the great battles of Larga and Kagula and signed the peace treaty of Küçük Kaynarca on 21st July 1774. In the wake of this, Tzarina Catherine II appointed him field marshal and he presumably received the service, ordered from Meissen in 1774, on occasion of this promotion along with the land and title.
Provenance
Purchased from Lempertz Cologne, auction 663 on 23rd March 1991, lot 150.
Literature
Cf. similar items from this service in the collection of the State Museum of Ceramics and Kuskowo estate, purchased from the Schtschukin collection (in cat.: Meißen für die Zaren. Porzellan als Mittel sächsisch-russischer Politik im 18. Jahrhundert, Munich 2004, no. 207 ff.)