A SEVEN-PIECE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TEA SERVICE
Lot 334 PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN LADY

A SEVEN-PIECE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TEA SERVICE

MARK OF IVAN SALTYKOV, MOSCOW, 1895, RETAILED BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV

Closed1 June 2015

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GBP 16,250

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A SEVEN-PIECE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TEA SERVICE
MARK OF IVAN SALTYKOV, MOSCOW, 1895, RETAILED BY PAVEL OVCHINNIKOV
Comprising a teapot, a sugar-bowl with cover, a milk-jug, a sugar-shovel, sugar-tongs, strainer and lemon fork, the bodies enamelled with stylised scrolling foliage and flower-heads in opaque shades of blue, turquoise, pink, white and translucent red and green, within turquoise beadwork borders and on stippled gilt ground, the teapot and sugar-bowl with mother-of-pearl insulators, in the velvet and silk-lined wooden fitted case stamped in Russian '[From] the shop / [of] manufacturer/ Ovchinnikov' beneath the Imperial warrant, all marked throughout
The teapot 4¼ in. (11 cm.) high; the box 10½ x 14 in. (27 x 35.5 cm.)

Acquired by the present owner from A La Vieille Russie, New York, in the 1980s.