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A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER
Lot 329PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED EUROPEAN PRIVATE COLLECTION

A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER

RUSSIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Fermé2 June 2014

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A LARGE PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER
RUSSIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Cylindrical, slightly tapering, the body engraved with gilt birds on floral and draped swags with bunches of fruit, the lower part further engraved with gilt birds perched on tree branches, with reeded base and on spreading foot, possibly marked on rim
6 7/8 in. (17.6 cm.) high
14.52 oz. (451.4 gr.) gross

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 30 November 1982, lot 188.

Note du spécialiste

The subtle use of black niello background in the form of delicate lacework, minute scrolls, foliage and dots on the present beaker, is typical of seventeenth-century Russian niello work. The technique, called Turkish niello [turetskaya chern’], was originally used by Turkish silversmiths in the Kremlin workshops.
For a similarly formed and nielloed beaker, made in Moscow during the late seventeenth century, please see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 51.