Sale 5260
London, South Kensington
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26 June 2007
Price realised
GBP 1,200
Estimate
A GROUP OF THREE LATE 19TH CENTURY RUSSIAN SILVER-GILT & CLOISONNE ENAMEL VODKA BEAKERS, Comprising one of tapering form on skirted foot, mark of SB (Cyrillics), Moscow, 1896, with polychrome shaded enamel stylised flowers on blue & turquoise ground, another with mark of Ovchinnikov apparently overstriking another maker, 1896/1908, also bearing later Soviet marks, hemispherical with polychrome floral designs & a third by Gustav Klingert, Moscow, circa 1890, base with Cyrillic inscription & date "1902", decorated with geometric designs on turquoise ground with red, white & several shades of blue. (3)
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