Lot 333
  • 333

A Russian Four-Piece Silver Tea and Coffee Set, St. Petersburg, 1841

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • with unidentified Latin maker's initials G.D., assaymaster Dmitrii Tverskoi
  • Silver, mother of pearl, ivory
  • Height of Coffee Pot 8 1/4 in.
  • 21 cm
comprising Teapot, Coffee Pot, Covered Sugar Bowl and Creamer; each piece of melon shape with scroll handles, with mother-of-pearl finials, the interiors gilded

Condition

the decorative rims slightly bent
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