A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE PART SERVICE
Lot 203

A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE PART SERVICE

MARK OF VASILII SEMENOV, MOSCOW, 1868

Closed20 May 2010

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A RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO TEA AND COFFEE PART SERVICE
MARK OF VASILII SEMENOV, MOSCOW, 1868
Comprising a coffee-pot, tea-pot, covered two-handled sugar-bowl and a cream-jug, each of tapering form, nielloed with views of the Kremlin, Christ the Saviour Cathedral and St Basil's Cathedral within circular medallions, decorated throughout with foliate stylized foliate arabesques in the Old Russian style and Greek-key pattern borders, gilt interiors, scroll handles and hinged covers with pointed finials, marked under bases and inside covers
4¾ in. (12 cm) high; and smaller (4)

Purchased from Dotheby's New York, 11 December 1990, Lot 109.