A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE

MAKER’S MARKS OF STEFAN WAKEVA (VAKEVA), JOSEPH NORDBERG, AND UNRECORDED MAKER'S MARK ‘EK’, ST PETERSBURG, 1890-1891

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MAKER’S MARKS OF STEFAN WAKEVA (VAKEVA), JOSEPH NORDBERG, AND UNRECORDED MAKER'S MARK ‘EK’, ST PETERSBURG, 1890-1891
Comprising a teapot, a coffee pot, a sugar bowl, a cream jug, a sugar-shovel, a pair of tongs, a swing-handled oval cake-basket and a tray; of tapering cylindrical form on circular foot, decorated throughout with engraved bands of geometric ornament, the pots and bowl with hinged covers, the baluster shaped finials and angular handles with ivory insulators, the tray with reeded border and scroll foliate handles, all engraved with a fringed towel centring a coat-of-arms of the Rodzianko family, marked throughout
The tray 23¼ in. (59 cm.) wide; the coffee pot 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high
178.4 oz. (5,550.0 gr.)

Provenance

Acquired by the great-grandfather of the present owner in Russia before 1917.

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Lot Essay

The Rodziankos were a prosperous landowning family of Ukrainian origin from the Poltava and Katerynoslav regions from the 18th to the 20th century. Famous members of the Rodzianko family included Vladimir Mikhailovich Rodzianko (1820-1893), Lieutenant General and Assistant Chief of Staff of the Special Corps of Gendarmes of the Russian Empire from 1868 to 1871; and his son Mikhail Vladimirovich Rodzianko (1859-1924), a Chairman of the State Duma between 1911-1917 and Head of the Provisional Committee of the State Duma during the Revolution of 1917.

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