an important russian silver, partly gilded and niello meat dish and cover, moscow, late 18th century

Estimate

25,000 - 35,000 USD

bidding is closed

Description

length of dish 31 in. 78.8 cm

the cover nielloed with a neo-classical freize of figures flanking a burning sacrificial altar on one side and armorials on the other, the top nielloed with neo-classical urns, baskets of flowers and drapery swags, Moscow, 1795, maker's mark S.G., unidentified, Postnikova-Losseva, #3057, Assay-master Andrei Titov, Alderman, Cyrillic initials M.Ts.S., unidentified, Postnikova-Losseva, #2695, with later floral finial; the dish with pierced border, also nielloed with armorials and with three rosettes, apparently unmarked.

Provenance

Sold, Christie's, New York, June 15, 1982, lot 57

Catalogue Note

The arms are those of Sheremetiev. This service was apparently ordered by Count Nicholai Petrovich Sheremetiev. Examples from this service, by Semyon Petrovich Kuzov, 1798/99, are reproduced by A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silverwork, New York, 1981, p.114. Also see, Russian Silverwares of the XVIIth-the Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, pl.96.