TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKERS
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TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKERS

RUSSIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY

已結束2014年11月24日

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GBP 43,750

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TWO PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKERS
RUSSIA, LATE 17TH CENTURY
Tapering cylindrical, each body engraved with three blossoming flowers amidst elaborate scrolling vines, on a ground finely nielloed with scrolling foliage in the Turkish style, on a raised foot, unmarked, the smaller beaker with touch mark and inscribed ‘N194’ under base
4¼ in. (11.4 cm.) high and smaller
14.41 oz. (448.1 gr.) gross

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The subtle use of a black niello background in the form of delicate lacework, minute scrolls, foliage and dots on the present beaker is typical of seventeenth-century Russian niello work. The technique, called Turkish niello [turetskaya chern'], was originally used by Turkish silversmiths in the Kremlin workshops. Another example of a seventeenth-century beaker in the Turkish style was sold Christie's, London, 2 June 2014, lot 329.