A SILVER SAMOVAR AND PART TEA SERVICE
MARK OF ADOLF SPER, ST PETERSBURG, 1840 AND 1842
Comprising a samovar, teapot, sugar-bowl, cream-jug, sweet dish and basket; the bodies repoussé with fluted lobes, the rims densely chased with scrolling acanthus and rocaille, foliate scroll feet, the teapot and samovar with ivory insulators, the samovar with a mother-of-pearl palmette-shaped tap, gilt interiors, marked throughout; also with import marks
The samovar: 18 in. (45.8 cm.) high
The samovar: 173.8 oz. (5405 gr.) gross
Other pieces: 127.13 oz. (3954.1 gr.) gross (6)
A SILVER SAMOVAR AND PART TEA SERVICE
MARK OF ADOLF SPER, ST PETERSBURG, 1840 AND 1842
Comprising a samovar, teapot, sugar-bowl, cream-jug, sweet dish and basket; the bodies repoussé with fluted lobes, the rims densely chased with scrolling acanthus and rocaille, foliate scroll feet, the teapot and samovar with ivory insulators, the samovar with a mother-of-pearl palmette-shaped tap, gilt interiors, marked throughout; also with import marks
The samovar: 18 in. (45.8 cm.) high
The samovar: 173.8 oz. (5405 gr.) gross
Other pieces: 127.13 oz. (3954.1 gr.) gross (6)
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