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Property from the Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, sold to benefit the Acquisitions Fund
A LARGE PARCEL-GILT BEAKER
MOSCOW, WITH THE ASSAYMASTER INITIALS OF MIKHAIL MOKEEV, 1722-1729, AND WITH UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER INITIALS 'EF'
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A LARGE PARCEL-GILT BEAKER
MOSCOW, WITH THE ASSAYMASTER INITIALS OF MIKHAIL MOKEEV, 1722-1729, AND WITH UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER INITIALS 'EF'
The body engraved on one side with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the other side with a cartouche enclosing an image of Peter the Great fighting a lion, the rim engraved with the Russian inscription 'Vivat vivat vivat Tsar Piotr Alekseievich'; together with a silver-gilt salt stand, Moscow, 1762, and an octagonal silver-gilt salver, St. Petersburg, 1763, marked on the bases
The beaker: 5 in. (12.7 cm.) high (3)
MOSCOW, WITH THE ASSAYMASTER INITIALS OF MIKHAIL MOKEEV, 1722-1729, AND WITH UNRECORDED CYRILLIC WORKMASTER INITIALS 'EF'
The body engraved on one side with the Imperial double-headed eagle, the other side with a cartouche enclosing an image of Peter the Great fighting a lion, the rim engraved with the Russian inscription 'Vivat vivat vivat Tsar Piotr Alekseievich'; together with a silver-gilt salt stand, Moscow, 1762, and an octagonal silver-gilt salver, St. Petersburg, 1763, marked on the bases
The beaker: 5 in. (12.7 cm.) high (3)