TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SPOONS
Lot 351

TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SPOONS

RUSSIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY

Closed5 June 2017

Price Realised

GBP 13,750

More Information

How to sell

TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO SPOONS
RUSSIA, SECOND HALF 17TH CENTURY
Both with ovoid bowls, finely engraved with floral motifs on the borders, one with a foliate nielloed ground and gilt bowl, the other engraved with a deer to the interior of the bowl, both with twisted stems, apparently unmarked
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) high and smaller
3.9 oz. (121.5 gr.) gross

Specialist note

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