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. 6 1/8 in.
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.79.6
- 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
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973