Lot 441
441
TWO SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOONS
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE PART II
TWO SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOONS

RUSSIA, MID 17TH CENTURY

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TWO SILVER AND NIELLO SERVING SPOONS
RUSSIA, MID 17TH CENTURY
Both with ovoid bowls, finely engraved with floral motifs on scrolling foliate nielloed grounds, the shaped stem of the smaller spoon nielloed with chevron pattern, with a knopped finial, the stem of the larger spoon nielloed with foliate motifs, the interior of the bowl of the larger spoon gilt, apparently unmarked
8 in. (20.5 cm.) long and smaller
3.49 oz. (108.5 gr.) gross

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Lot Essay

For a collection of related seventeenth-century silver and niello spoons, see exhibition catalogue, J. Kugel, Treasures of the Czars: Russia and Europe from Peter the Great to Nicholas I, Paris, 1998, nos. 25-34.

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