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MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'KF', MOSCOW, 1890
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A SILVER-GILT CHAMPLEVÉ AND EN PLEIN ENAMEL LARGE SERVING SPOON
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'KF', MOSCOW, 1890
The oval bowl finely en plein enamelled with a portrait of a young lady, three-quarter length, wearing a traditional Russian dress, with her right arm on a plinth and holding blue flowers, landscape beyond, within a champlevé enamelled scrolling foliate border, the shaped knopped stem enamelled in blue and red and opaque green, white and pale blue, with a shaped flat finial cast and chased with radiating ornament, marked on stem
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) long
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'KF', MOSCOW, 1890
The oval bowl finely en plein enamelled with a portrait of a young lady, three-quarter length, wearing a traditional Russian dress, with her right arm on a plinth and holding blue flowers, landscape beyond, within a champlevé enamelled scrolling foliate border, the shaped knopped stem enamelled in blue and red and opaque green, white and pale blue, with a shaped flat finial cast and chased with radiating ornament, marked on stem
7¾ in. (19.7 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, New York, 10 June 1982, lot 217.
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner.
Acquired at the above sale by the father of the present owner.
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