Antique Imperial Russian Porcelain Plate Gardner Factory Soup Bowl 19 Century

  

Antique Imperial Russian Porcelain Plate Gardner Factory Soup Bowl 19 Century. In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the full name of the factory, impressed either in Cyrillic or Latin characters, becomes more frequent. In the second half of the nineteenth century the mark is usually the Moscow St George and Dragon crest, surrounded by a circle, bearing the full name of the factory, at first impressed, and later painted in green or red. In the last decades of the factory's existence the double-headed eagle was added to the design.