Live Auction 1571Important Russian Art
TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUPS
Lot 429 PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE PART II

TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUPS

BOTH WITH MARK OF PETER MÖLLER, ST PETERSBURG, 1823 AND 1831

Closed24 November 2014

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TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER CUPS
BOTH WITH MARK OF PETER MÖLLER, ST PETERSBURG, 1823 AND 1831
Each cylindrical body applied with cartouches depicting mythological scenes, above a continuous frieze of bacchantes and putti, with everted rim cast with foliage, the scroll handle surmounted by a helmeted soldier's head, one cup with domed cover with finial in the form of a helmeted soldier's head, both marked under bases and lower rims, the larger tankard also marked on cover and with import marks
6¼ in. (16 cm.) high and smaller
19.18 oz. (596.4 gr.)

Specialist note

For a similar tankard with a cover, see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 134.
For another similar model, also see S.Ya. Kovarskaya, Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves, Moscow, 1984, p. 149, no. 134.