A pair of russian enamel gilt polychrome dated armorial commemorative beakers
LATE 19TH CENTURY
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A pair of russian enamel gilt polychrome dated armorial commemorative beakers
Late 19th Century
Both decorated with interlaced arabesques, one with a glued medallion depicting Queen Wilhelmina above 1898, the back with an enamel imperial bicephalous eagle, the other with an enamel monogram for Czar Nicholas II, above 1896, the back with the glued Dutch royal coat of arms
10.5cm. high (2)
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Queen Wilhelmina was a Romanov herself through her grandmother Anna Paulowna. She was inaugurated as the Dutch Queen in 1898
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