AN ART NOUVEAU SILVER CENTRE-PIECE, designed by Stephan Wäkeva, chased and moulded as three blossoming orchids with their stems and leaves, the leaves scrolling and overlapping to form a triangular base, mounted with flaring cylindrical clear and red glass dish (one leaf with small crack), struck with maker's mark of Stephan Wäkeva and with marks for Moscow 1907-1918

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AN ART NOUVEAU SILVER CENTRE-PIECE, designed by Stephan Wäkeva, chased and moulded as three blossoming orchids with their stems and leaves, the leaves scrolling and overlapping to form a triangular base, mounted with flaring cylindrical clear and red glass dish (one leaf with small crack), struck with maker's mark of Stephan Wäkeva and with marks for Moscow 1907-1918
27.5cm. high (without dish)

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Stephan Wäkeva worked for Fabergé in St. Petersburg until 1889 after which he started to work for himself in Moscow.

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