A silver-gilt, cloisonné and pictorial enamel punch set, workmaster Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow, 1893

Property of an Important Family (lots 18-21, 138, 142, 144, 146-152, 156-164, 205)

A silver-gilt, cloisonné and pictorial enamel punch set, workmaster Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow, 1893

Comprising a punch bowl, ladle, tray and six cups, the shaped circular bowl with lobed panels each colourfully decorated with alternating panels of exotic birds and scrolling foliage below a wide band inscribed in Cyrillic with a drinking rhyme, the cups decorated en suite with flat, shaped handles, the tray enamelled with multicoloured flowers and foliage within scrolling borders, raised on three peg feet and with six circular reserves to hold the cups, struck throughout with maker's mark, 88 standard

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diameter of tray 35.1 cm, 13 7/8 in.