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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