A silver-gilt and champlevé enamel trompe l’oeil enamel Basket, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1888
Property from a North Carolina Collection
A silver-gilt and champlevé enamel trompe l’oeil enamel Basket, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1888
circular, cast as a wicker basket with two ropework handles, covered with a folded linen cloth part-enamelled in blue, green, turquoise and with pierced lace edge, struck on the side with Ovchinnikov in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial warrant, 84 standard
length over handles 38cm, 15in.