Lot Essay
For a champlevé enamel tea and coffee service with a similar Chinese inspiration see Christie's London, The Provatoroff Collection of Russian Works of Art, Icons and Pictures, 20 November 1997, lot 425
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MARKED P. OVCHINNIKOV WITH IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1881-1883
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A silver-gilt champlevé part Coffee- and Tea-service
marked P. Ovchinnikov with Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1881-1883
Comprising a tapering covered coffee-pot, a tea-pot and a double-handled sugar-bowl, a similar cream-jug, a circular slop-bowl and a sugar-bowl with swing handle, a tea-strainer, sugar-tongs and shovel, and 11 teaspoons, all decorated with stylized multi-colored birds and butterflies, flowers and foliage on black ground, between decorative borders of geometric motifs, the first four with angular handles, gilt interiors, fully marked
the coffee-pot 5.7/8in. (15cm.) high (20)
marked P. Ovchinnikov with Imperial warrant, Moscow, 1881-1883
Comprising a tapering covered coffee-pot, a tea-pot and a double-handled sugar-bowl, a similar cream-jug, a circular slop-bowl and a sugar-bowl with swing handle, a tea-strainer, sugar-tongs and shovel, and 11 teaspoons, all decorated with stylized multi-colored birds and butterflies, flowers and foliage on black ground, between decorative borders of geometric motifs, the first four with angular handles, gilt interiors, fully marked
the coffee-pot 5.7/8in. (15cm.) high (20)