A FOUR-PIECE PARCEL-GILT TROMPE-L'OEIL TEA SERVICE

MARKED WITH UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER'S INITIALS 'G.L', MOSCOW, 1896-1908

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A FOUR-PIECE PARCEL-GILT TROMPE-L'OEIL TEA SERVICE
marked with unrecorded Cyrillic workmaster's initials 'G.L', Moscow, 1896-1908
Comprising, a teapot, a milk jug, a covered sugar bowl and tongs; each imitating saddle-bags cloth with stylized scrolling foliage within a leaf border, the high-domed caps joined to the bodies by link chains, the spouts with stopper spouts joined by similar chains, each piece engraved under the base with the monogram R.C.W., marked under bases
teapot 8¼in. (21cm.) high
39.91oz. (1241.1gr.) (4)

Lot Essay

The design of the above service is based on the flasks carried by the water carriers in the Ottoman army in the XVIII Century. There, flasks were made of thick leather with embroidery decorations.
For a flask in the form of a teapot now in the Historical Museum in Moscow see A. Astvatsarian, Turkish Weapons, (Moscow 2002), p. 321, ill.

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