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SPOON (ONE OF SEVEN)

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage


About this object

Set of seven dessert spoons. One large serving spoon and six smaller of a same size. Bowls are decorated in niello, each with a different view of stylized towers, churches and other buildings with a zig zag frame and a fan-shaped cartouche for a monogram. Serving spoon is decorated with a Kremlin view. Handle is twisted in the central portion, then extendes to a six sided part and ends in a knob.

Object name:
SPOON (ONE OF SEVEN)
Made from:
Silver gilt -- niello
Made in:
Moscow, Russia
Date made:
1889
Size:
H. 8 1/8 in.

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:
13.79.1
Class:
NIELLO
Signature marks:
MARK St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, 84 in a square for silver standard, LO in Cyrillic for Oleks Lev (essayer in 1890-1896) /1889, NP in Cyriilic (?) Postnikova-Loseva gives dates for Oleks Lev as 1890-1896, however her reserch was based on the collection of the Historical Museum, and 1890 may be the earliest date on the objects in their collection. Hillwood spoons are marked with date 1889, and that may indicate that Oleks in fact became an asseyer a year earlier that previously was thought.
Credit line:
Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973