Lot 438
  • 438

A LARGE SILVER-GILT AND PLIQUE-À-JOUR ENAMEL BEAKER, OVCHINNIKOV, MOSCOW, CIRCA 1895 |

Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • height 13cm, 5 1/8 in.
of tapering cylindrical form, the body decorated with panels depicting flower heads and foliage against a blue ground within white beaded borders, between scenes of brightly coloured tropical birds, pheasants, firebirds, and a man dressed in yellow robes, with twisted cable rims, on a domed circular foot with a brightly coloured band within beaded borders, inscribed on the underside “Made by P. Ovchinnikov and Sons”, otherwise unmarked

Provenance

Sotheby's Zurich, 11 November 1977, lot 437 Sotheby's New York, 14-15 December 1984, lot 485

Sotheby's New York, 1 December 1998, lot 228

Lyon and Turnbull, The Chen Collection, 23 November 2008, lot 53.

Literature

Alexander von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silver, 1981, pl.62

Condition

In excellent condition with only minor areas of restoration; some of the cloisons with cracks.
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