SPOON
Creator(s): Unknown
Currently in storage
About this object
Back of spoon has a panel nielloed in a silver ground with a view of a group of buildings in the Kremlin. Rest of the back has a nielloed vine scroll design in niello on a gilt ground. Space for a mongram is vacant. Handle is twisted half length and ends in a knop.
- Object name:
- SPOON
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- niello
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1874
- Size:
- 17.3 cm (6 13/16 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 13.92
- Class:
- NIELLO
- Signature marks:
- MARK on back: St. George and the Dragon for Moscow, A.C./1879, 84, D.M., 800, HY
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973