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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER
Lot 382

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER

MARKED SAZIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1873

Closed28 November 2016

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER BEAKER
MARKED SAZIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1873
Engraved with scrollwork, birds and animals, with a Russian inscription ‘A true copy of a beaker from the Moscow Armoury’, on three seated lion feet, marked under base, also with French import marks
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high
13.91 oz. (432.6 gr.)

Specialist note

The original 17th century beaker by Grigorii Novgorodets, commissioned for the Patriarch Pitirim of Moscow, that inspired the present beaker was made 200 years earlier, in 1673. For the beaker by Novgorodets, see S. Bogoyavlenskii, Gosudarstvennaia Oruzheynaia Palata Moskovskogo Kremlia [State Kremlin Armoury], Moscow, 1954, p. 212, no. 52.
For a comparable beaker by Fabergé, see Géza von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 116, no. 174.