A silver-gilt cloisonn enamel Vase
A silver-gilt cloisonn enamel Vase

MARKED WITH THE CYRILLIC INITIALS OF NIKOLAI ALEKSEEV, MOSCOW, 1908-1917

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A silver-gilt cloisonn enamel Vase
marked with the Cyrillic initials of Nikolai Alekseev, Moscow, 1908-1917
Baluster-shaped, on speading foot with stylized floral and foliate sprays on cream ground, the body with shaped reserve of a young Russian woman in kokoshnik and sarafan after K. Makovskii, surrounded by stylized varicolor floral and foliate scrolls on blue and cream ground embellished with geometric borders, the rim with a band of flowerheads on blue ground with twisted ropework borders, marked under base
5in. (14.7cm.) high