RUSSIA, CIRCA 1645

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A GEM-SET SILVER-GILT MOUNTED AGATE KOVSH
RUSSIA, CIRCA 1645
The oval agate bowl with silver-gilt mounts, set with cabochon turquoises and garnets throughout, within wirework bands, with a similarly decorated upright handle, the upper rim inscribed in Old Russian '[Belongs to] Archimandrite Cyrill of the Chudov Monastery / To drink from it for health 154 (1645)', on a circular foot, apparently unmarked
7 1⁄2 in. (19 cm.) long

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Lot Essay

This agate kovsh is very similar to another mid-17th century coconut kovsh belonging to Archimandrite Cyrill of the Chudov Monastery, see G. Filimonov, Opisanie pamiatnikov drevnosti tserkovnago i grazhdanskago byta Russkago Muzeia P. Korobanova [Description of religious and civil Antiquities in the Russian Museum of P. Korobanov], Moscow, 1849, pl. IX. According to Filimonov, another coconut kovsh of this design was in the collection of Alexander Pavlovich Protasov (1790-1856).

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