A rare silver and champlevé enamel salt throne, marked Khlebnikov with the Imperial Warrant, Moscow, 1879

A rare silver and champlevé enamel salt throne, marked Khlebnikov with the Imperial Warrant, Moscow, 1879

the seat with opaque and translucent polychome enamel geometric motifs, the front inscribed Without salt and bread, it is half a dinner, the lid with the arms of Ekaterinoslav and Kharkov, the back with the arms of Voronezh and Rostov flanked by roosters, the interior of the lid engraved To His Excellence Samuel Solomonovich Polyakov from the grateful members of the Kozlovo-Voronezhsko-Rostovskaya and Kursko-Kharkovo-Azovskaya railways, 88 standard

height 14.8cm, 5 13/16 in.