A SHAPED SILVER-MOUNTED PRESENTATION TRIPTYCH, the centre of Saint Nadezhda, the wings with Saints Sofia and Michael, painted on copper with gilt ground, the reverse inscribed in Russian From the blessed parents of their daughter Nadezhda, born 16th March 1896 (slight paint loss), by Pavel Ovchinnikov, St. Petersburg, 1896

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A SHAPED SILVER-MOUNTED PRESENTATION TRIPTYCH, the centre of Saint Nadezhda, the wings with Saints Sofia and Michael, painted on copper with gilt ground, the reverse inscribed in Russian From the blessed parents of their daughter Nadezhda, born 16th March 1896 (slight paint loss), by Pavel Ovchinnikov, St. Petersburg, 1896
8 3/8 x 11 7/8in. (21.2 x 30.2cm.) extended

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Commemorating the birth in Cannes of Nadezhda Mikhailovna, Countess Torby, the daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich and his morganatic wife Sophie Countess Merenberg. Nadezhda married Lord George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquis of Milford Haven on 15 November 1913, and died on 22 January 1963

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