Live Auction 19802Russian Art
A CLOISONNÉ AND PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL SILVER-GILT TANKARD
Lot 224

A CLOISONNÉ AND PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL SILVER-GILT TANKARD

MARKED P. OVCHINNIKOV WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890

Closed7 June 2021

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A CLOISONNÉ AND PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL SILVER-GILT TANKARD
MARKED P. OVCHINNIKOV WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1890
The tapering body cloisonné enamelled overall with scrolling foliage, the base plique-à-jour enamelled with an eagle attacking a dragon, the borders to the top rim and the octagonal base chased with interweaving ribbons, with fluted columns above, with scroll handle and a detachable domed cover, surmounted by an openwork ball finial, marked under base
8 ¼ in. (21 cm.) high

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Geneva, 17 November 1981, lot 126.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, Geneva, 19 November 1991, lot 331.
The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels; Christie's, New York, 20 October 1998, lot 134.

Specialist note

The shape and decoration for this tankard was inspired by a 17th-century tankard illustrated by Feodor Solntsev, which appears in The Antiquities of the Russian State, the monumental work documenting Russian artefacts with over 500 illustrations. For a comparable tankard, see A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silver, London, 1981, no. 51.