A silver beaker, Sazikov, Moscow, 1873
Lot Closed
June 9, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
5,000 - 7,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
A silver beaker, Sazikov, Moscow, 1873
In traditional style, 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, struck to base with maker's mark, 84 standard
height 17.5cm, 6 7/8 in.
The original 17th-century beaker by Grigory 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 G. von Habsburg, Fabergé: Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 116, no. 174.
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