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Lot Essay
The subtle use of black niello background in the form of delicate lacework, minute scrolls, foliage and dots on the present beaker, is typical of seventeenth-century Russian niello work. The technique, called Turkish niello [turetskaya chern’], was originally used by Turkish silversmiths in the Kremlin workshops.
For a similarly formed and nielloed beaker, made in Moscow during the late seventeenth century, please see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 51.
For a similarly formed and nielloed beaker, made in Moscow during the late seventeenth century, please see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 51.