The Counts Apraksin: A Large Russian Gilded Silver and Figural Trompe L'Oeil Covered Presentation Cup, Alexander Nikolaevich Sokolov, Moscow, 1875

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

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Description

engraved in Cyrillic: To Yakov Andreevich Spyalti by Count Ivan Alexandrovich Apraksin in memory of twenty-five years of excellent estate management 1856-1881
Gilded silver
Height 12 1/2 in.
31.8 cm

the tapering body set on a spreading foot, the sides applied with vernacular architectural ornament, including ornate windows filled with the figures of realistically cast and chased peasant figures, further applied with agricultural implements, the cover crowned with a large figural finial of a dancing male peasant