Plate
date: label: date made
content: ca 1860
notes: label: Description
content: Shallow, circular plate engraved on its well with a rampant lion, facing left, beneath a princely crown at center bordered by "Prince Nikolai Borisovich Yusupov. Princess Tatiana Aleksandrovna Yusupov" (also spelled Iussupov, Yussupov, and Yussupoff) in Early Cyrillic (Old Russian or Old Slavonic) around its perimeter. Cast and chased, plain-edged rim features six wide sections of alternating pairs of stylized lions and peacocks separated by six narrower sections with falcons, all standing facing each other against arabesques of foliage and fruit. No foot ring. Front of well struck below lion's foot with an upside-down oval mark containing "91" next to the city mark and Cyrillic initials for St. Petersburg and with "A\LEX/ GUEYTON" in raised serif letters in a clipped-corner square. Rim front bottom edge has a profile head of Minerva, facing right, with small "1" at top right in a clipped-corner surround, while back bottom edge has partial insect countermark. Well reverse has another Minerva head.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
label: place used
content: Russia: Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Colonel William E. Shipp
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.62.0058
label: catalog number
content: 62.0058
label: accession number
content: 226997
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
label: Object Type
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 1/2 in x 9 7/8 in; 1.27 cm x 25.0825 cm