An extensive Russian silver tea and coffee-service

MAKER'S MARK OF NICHOLLS & PLINKE, WORKMASTER PK, ST. PETERSBURG, THE TRAY DATED 1878

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An extensive Russian silver tea and coffee-service
Maker's mark of Nicholls & Plinke, workmaster PK, St. Petersburg, the tray dated 1878
With gadrooned borders, comprising coffee-pot, teapot, covered sugar-bowl, two cream-jugs, tea-kettle on stand with lamp, twenty-four teaspoons, tea-strainer and sugar-sifter, with two-handled tray, each piece engraved with monogram beneath Imperial crown and chased or engraved with band of geometric ornament and ribbons, the table silver with beaded borders and wreath tops engraved with similar monogram, fully marked except for kettle-stand, all in original fitted wooden case with applied plaques engraved with crowned monogram and cyrillic inscription reading in translation "1 Tea-Service"
the tray 84.5 cm. (33.1/8 in.) long
20,550 gr. (660 oz.) gross. (34)

拍品专文

The monogram is that of Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna (1860-1922), the grand-daughter of the Emperor Nicholas I. She married in 1879 the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin.
This service was presumably ordered as a wedding gift.