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TWO SILVER-MOUNTED COCONUT-SHELL SPOONS AND A SILVER-GILT SALT-CELLAR
the spoons unmarked, Russia, first half 18th Century, the salt-cellar by Fedor Petrov, assay master M. Bobrovshtchikov , Moscow, 1760
One spoon with coconut bowl carved on the reverse with a double-headed eagle and surrounded foliage, the rim and base of the handle mounted with foliate decoration, the plain handle partly tapering cylindrical; the other carved on the reverse with two sea-hourses enclosing an inscription in Cyrillic, and further surrounded with foliage, and mounted with foliage to the rim; the cellar on three scroll and hoof feet and decorated around the body with foliage and rocaille (3)
the spoons unmarked, Russia, first half 18th Century, the salt-cellar by Fedor Petrov, assay master M. Bobrovshtchikov , Moscow, 1760
One spoon with coconut bowl carved on the reverse with a double-headed eagle and surrounded foliage, the rim and base of the handle mounted with foliate decoration, the plain handle partly tapering cylindrical; the other carved on the reverse with two sea-hourses enclosing an inscription in Cyrillic, and further surrounded with foliage, and mounted with foliage to the rim; the cellar on three scroll and hoof feet and decorated around the body with foliage and rocaille (3)