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A SILVER-GILT COFFEE POT
Lot 88 VARIOUS PROPERTIES

A SILVER-GILT COFFEE POT

MAKER'S MARK OF JONAS BERGSTRÖM, WITH THE ASSAYMASTER'S MARK OF ALEXANDER YASHINOV, ST. PETERSBURG, 1797

Closed15 April 2013

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A SILVER-GILT COFFEE POT
MAKER'S MARK OF JONAS BERGSTRÖM, WITH THE ASSAYMASTER'S MARK OF ALEXANDER YASHINOV, ST. PETERSBURG, 1797
The teapot tapering cylindrical, on a circular domed base with wood scroll handle, the upper body engraved with the crowned cypher of Emperor Paul I, the hinged domed cover with part wood knop finial, marked under base and further stamped '9.' and prick-engraved 'No 9 Bl:', also with French import mark
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high
22.5 oz. (637.8 gr.)

Specialist note

For a comparable coffee pot, see Z.Z. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, pl. 82.