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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOON
Lot 363PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT SWISS COLLECTOR

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOON

MOSCOW, LATE 17TH CENTURY

Fermé2 June 2014

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOON
MOSCOW, LATE 17TH CENTURY
The ovoid bowl finely engraved with an escutcheon-shaped reserve surmounted with stylised feathers on scrolling foliate nielloed ground, floral border, the spiral twist stem with nielloed banded, the interior of the stem vacant, the interior of the bowl gilt, apparently unmarked
7 in. (17.7 cm.) long
2.89 oz. (89.9 gr.) gross

Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, Geneva, 12 November 1980, lot 345.
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner.

Note du spécialiste

For a collection of related seventeenth century silver and niello spoons, see exhibition catalogue, J. Kugel, Treasures of the Czars: Russia and Europe from Peter the Great to Nicholas I, Paris, 1998, nos. 25-34.

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