拍品专文
For a similar nielloed Imperial Presentation kovsh, also engraved with the cypher of Emperor Alexander I and presented to Major Andrei Andreevich Mizinov in 1820, please see A. Odom, Russian Silver in America: Surviving the Melting Pot, London, 2011, p. 126 and p. 129.
An Imperial Presentation Kovsh, described as ‘A Russian Parcel-gilt bowl, chased with a double-headed eagle, marked with the crowned initial A’ was sold as part of the property of The Rt. Hon. Viscount Wimborne; Christie’s, London, 8 March 1923, lot 318.
A comparable silver-gilt and niello presentation kovsh, engraved with the cypher of Emperor Alexander I and dated 1819, was sold as part of the Herbette Collection, Christie's, Geneva, 26 May 1971, lot 448, and Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 87.
An Imperial Presentation Kovsh, described as ‘A Russian Parcel-gilt bowl, chased with a double-headed eagle, marked with the crowned initial A’ was sold as part of the property of The Rt. Hon. Viscount Wimborne; Christie’s, London, 8 March 1923, lot 318.
A comparable silver-gilt and niello presentation kovsh, engraved with the cypher of Emperor Alexander I and dated 1819, was sold as part of the Herbette Collection, Christie's, Geneva, 26 May 1971, lot 448, and Christie's, Geneva, 12 May 1981, lot 87.