A Large Russian Silver Tray from the Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna Service, Robert Kokhun (Colqhoun), retailed by Nichols & Plinke, St. Petersburg, 1857

the heavy tray in the Neo-Rococo taste, with shaped border and handles chased and repoussé with shells and scrollwork, engraved with MN in Cyrillic beneath the Imperial crown

with some slight surface scratching consistent with age
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Robert Colqhoun (or Kokhun, as it was rendered in Russian) was a part-owner of Nichols & Plinke, St. Petersburg's famed "Magasin Anglais," and provided a great deal of silver to the Russian court in the latter half of the 19th century.