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Lot 386 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF JAMES ANNENBERG LA VEA, SOLD TO BENEFIT A CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
A SILVER BOTTLE COOLER FROM THE GRAND DUCHESS ALEXANDRA NIKOLAEVNA SERVICE
MARK OF CARL TEGELSTEN, ST PETERSBURG, 1843
Closed30 November 2015
Price Realised
GBP 11,250
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Specialist note
Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825-1844) was the third daughter of Emperor Nicholas I (1796-1855) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), née Charlotte of Prussia. She married Prince Frederick William of Hesse (1820-1864) in 1844 and died in childbirth later that same year.
Emperor Nicholas I supplied his three daughters with lavish dowries, which included extensive silver services. Many of the silver services were produced by Carl Tegelsten (1798-1852), a master of Finnish descent. He received the commissions through the fashionable English Shop, owned by the English merchants, Konstantin Nicholls and Wilhelm Plincke, which according to the court chamberlain Dolgoruky "enjoyed universal trust" (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 145).
A nearly identical wine cooler from the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Service was sold at Christie's, New York on 21 October 2003, lot 23.
Emperor Nicholas I supplied his three daughters with lavish dowries, which included extensive silver services. Many of the silver services were produced by Carl Tegelsten (1798-1852), a master of Finnish descent. He received the commissions through the fashionable English Shop, owned by the English merchants, Konstantin Nicholls and Wilhelm Plincke, which according to the court chamberlain Dolgoruky "enjoyed universal trust" (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 145).
A nearly identical wine cooler from the Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna Service was sold at Christie's, New York on 21 October 2003, lot 23.