A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH
A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH
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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH

MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, MOSCOW, 1820

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH
MAKER'S MARK INDISTINCT, MOSCOW, 1820
Of traditional form with raised prow and handle, the bowl repoussé with a circular reserve centring an Imperial double-headed eagle with the orb and sceptre, centring an escutcheon with the cypher of Emperor Alexander I, within ribbon-tied laurel border, the inside of the prow later engraved with the Arms of Wimborne, the sides engraved with Russian dedication inscription 'Andrey Andreevich Mizinov, Ataman of the Uralskii Voisko' within laurel nielloed borders reserves, the prow and reverse centring trophies of war, the shaped handle nielloed with the cypher of Alexander I surmounted by the Imperial crown on chevron ground, the finial cast and chased as an Imperial double-headed eagle, marked on interior reserve
9½ in. (24 cm.) wide
12.33 oz. (349.7 gr.)

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.

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