A silver-gilt and champlevé enamel trompe l’oeil enamel Basket, Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1888

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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.