MARK OF PAVEL SAZIKOV, MOSCOW, 1820

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A SILVER-GILT AND NIELLO DESSERT FLATWARE SERVICE
MARK OF PAVEL SAZIKOV, MOSCOW, 1820
Comprising thirty-six tablespoons, thirty-six knives, thirty-six ladles and thirty-five forks; each bowl, fork, blade and flat handle with niello floral motifs on a gilt-stippled ground; each ladle with knop finial, marked on stems and blades, in the original fitted wood case with paper label inscribed 'R. & S. Garrard & Co. Goldsmiths, Silvermiths & Jewellers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen By Appointment to the Crown To Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales And All the Royal Family Panton Street & 25 Haymarket S.W.' and numbered 'Case No. 19', the cover with two brass plaques engraved 'THE R[IGH]T HON[ORA]BLE THE EARL OF DURHAM 1820', and '19'
The knives 7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) long
216.6 oz. (6140.5 gr.) gross

Provenance

By repute, with Hammer Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above in the 1930s.
By descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

The dates on the silver and plaque correspond to the 1st Earl of Durham, John George Lambton (1792-1840), who earned the title in 1833 upon resigning from his position as Lord Privy Seal. Between 1835-1837 Lambton served as ambassador to Russia where he was knighted with the foreign Orders of St Andrew, St Alexander Nevsky, St Anne and the White Eagle.

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