A RARE AND IMPORTANT PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER
PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, FRANCE PART II
A RARE AND IMPORTANT PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER

MAKER’S MARK CYRILLIC ‘PSH’, TOBOLSK, 1775

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A RARE AND IMPORTANT PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO BEAKER
MAKER’S MARK CYRILLIC ‘PSh’, TOBOLSK, 1775
Cylindrical, slightly tapering, the body repoussé and chased with wave-bands and nielloed with two rocaille cartouches on a gilt stippled ground, one enclosing the coat-of-arms of Denis Ivanovich Chicherin, the other his Cyrillic cypher ‘DCh’ beneath a crown, the upper and lower parts further nielloed with rocaille bands, marked under base, also with import marks on the rim
4 in. (10 cm.) high
5.49 oz. (170.8 gr.) gross

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Aleksandra Babenko
Aleksandra Babenko

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Denis Ivanovich Chicherin (1720?-1785) was the governor of Siberia from 1763 to 1781, appointed by Empress Catherine II, who reigned from 1762 to 1796. Among his many accomplishments, Chicherin built a highway from Tobolsk to Irkutsk and provided Tobolsk with hospitals, schools and pharmacies.

Near the end of the eighteenth century, Tobolsk was the centre of niello work in Siberia, producing items of unparalleled quality that influenced production in other Siberian cities (M.M. Postnikova-Loseva, et al., Russkoe Chernevoe Iskusstvo, Moscow, 1972, p. 18). Examples include a tea-pot, tea caddy, sugar bowl, and boxes with Siberian landscapes, maps, and plans of cities. A number of works were commissioned by Governor Chicherin and included his coat-of-arms.

For related beakers, see A. von Solodkoff, Russian Gold and Silver, Fribourg, 1981, no. 112, and S. Ia. Kovarskaia, Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves, Moscow, 1984, p. 115, no. 100.

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