A silver allegorical Tazza

MARKED SAZIKOV WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, ST. PETERSBURG, 1867

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A silver allegorical Tazza
marked Sazikov with Imperial warrant, St. Petersburg, 1867
An allegory of Autumn, a child holding aloft a cornucopia, draped and seated on a plough with a chain resting on sheaves of corn on naturalistic ground, on a circular stepped base engraved with a crowned cypher, with later glass dish, marked on ground and base
28in. (40.5cm.) high
4,782 gr. gross

Lot Essay

Stylistically this tazza resembles those made for the Saltykov Service by Franois Thomas Germain in 1867: see Baron A. de Foelkersam, Inventaire de l'Argenterie conserve dans les Gardes-meubles des Palais impriaux, (St. Petersburg: 1907), vol.I plates 1-3.

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