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Lot Essay
Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1822-1892) was the second daughter of Emperor Nicholas I (1796-1855) and Empress Alexandra Feodorovna (1798-1860), n©e Charlotte of Prussia. She married Crown Prince Charles of Württemberg (1823-1891) in July 1846 at the Peterhof Palace outside of St. Petersburg. The couple lived mostly in the Villa Berg in Stuttgart and in the Kloster Hofen. After the death of his father in June 1864, Charles acceded the throne and became the third king of Württemberg, making Olga its fourth queen.
Emperor Nicholas I supplied his three daughters with lavish dowries, which included extensive silver services. Many of the silver services were produced by Carl Tegelsten (1798-1852), a master of Finnish descent. He received the commissions through the fashionable English Store, owned by the English merchants, Konstantin Nicholls and Wilhelm Plincke, which according to the court chamberlain Dolgoruky "enjoyed universal trust" (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 145). The service for Olga, of which the present lot is part, was to be in the "latest truly beautiful and fine English fashion" (M. N. Lopato, Iuveliry starogo Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 128).
Silver soup tureens by Carl Tegelsten from the dowry services of both Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825-1844) were sold at Christie's, London, November 29, 2006, lot 226, and Christie's, London, November 29, 2010, respectively.
Emperor Nicholas I supplied his three daughters with lavish dowries, which included extensive silver services. Many of the silver services were produced by Carl Tegelsten (1798-1852), a master of Finnish descent. He received the commissions through the fashionable English Store, owned by the English merchants, Konstantin Nicholls and Wilhelm Plincke, which according to the court chamberlain Dolgoruky "enjoyed universal trust" (A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 145). The service for Olga, of which the present lot is part, was to be in the "latest truly beautiful and fine English fashion" (M. N. Lopato, Iuveliry starogo Peterburga, St. Petersburg, 2006, p. 128).
Silver soup tureens by Carl Tegelsten from the dowry services of both Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna and Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna (1825-1844) were sold at Christie's, London, November 29, 2006, lot 226, and Christie's, London, November 29, 2010, respectively.