A SEVEN-PIECE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TEA SERVICE
MARKED P. OVCHINNIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Comprising a teapot, a sugar-bowl with cover, a cream jug, a milk-jug, a sugar-shovel, sugar-tongs, strainer and lemon fork, the teapot with mother-of-pearl insulators, all marked throughout; in the original fitted wood case, with a silver plaque engraved in Russian '[To] Gerhard Avgustovich Knoop in memory of 25 years of service from the colleagues at the Danilovskii Factory in Moscow / 1885-1910'
The teapot, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high
A SEVEN-PIECE SILVER-GILT AND CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL TEA SERVICE
MARKED P. OVCHINNIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
Comprising a teapot, a sugar-bowl with cover, a cream jug, a milk-jug, a sugar-shovel, sugar-tongs, strainer and lemon fork, the teapot with mother-of-pearl insulators, all marked throughout; in the original fitted wood case, with a silver plaque engraved in Russian '[To] Gerhard Avgustovich Knoop in memory of 25 years of service from the colleagues at the Danilovskii Factory in Moscow / 1885-1910'
The teapot, 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high