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TABLE CLOCK

TABLE CLOCK

Cat. no.: 11.89

Artist: Fabergé (Firm)

Date: 1908-1917

For her fifty-first birthday, celebrated in Moscow in 1938, Marjorie Merriweather Post received this clock from husband Joseph Davies. About this gift she wrote, "I recorded [in my scrapbook] my...

COFFEEPOT

COFFEEPOT

Cat. no.: 12.10

Artist: Nikolai Dom (Silversmith)

Date: c. 1730

Hillwood's silver gilt coffee pot is from a service created for Empress Anna Ioannovna by Nikolai Don or Dom, a Frenchman and one of the first recorded silversmiths in St. Petersburg. This...

COVERED SALTCELLAR

COVERED SALTCELLAR

Cat. no.: 12.101.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: 1800

The shape is that of an urn. Around the widest part is a band of engraved and stippled decoration including both rosette and leaf shapes and underneath is a row of engraved leaves. The foot has...

COVERED SALTCELLAR

COVERED SALTCELLAR

Cat. no.: 12.102.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: early 19th Century

The bowl is decorated with garlands and swags of leaves while below there is a series of acanthus leaves. The base has a garland of leaves running around it. The interior is fitted with a shallow...

SALTCELLAR

SALTCELLAR

Cat. no.: 12.103

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: c. 1825

The salt cellar is shaped like a bowl resting on three legs. The top of the rim is engraved with flowers and leaves. The upper part of the bowl is plain. The lower part has three acanthus...

SALTCELLAR

SALTCELLAR

Cat. no.: 12.104.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: c. 1800

The shape is that of a covered urn on a plinth. Around the upper part of the bowl are engraved garlands and rinceaux. On the lower part are engraved rinceaux and a row of leaves pointing upward....

TEA STRAINER

TEA STRAINER

Cat. no.: 12.105

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: 1840

The strainer is shaped like a spoon with a large, round, deep bowl, which is ribbed with holes. Around the edge is a series of fleurettes. The fiddle-shaped handle is decorated on the end.

COVERED SALTCELLAR

COVERED SALTCELLAR

Cat. no.: 12.106.1-2

Artist: Unknown (Silversmith)

Date: 1839

The saltcellar is urn-shaped and has swirling acanthus leaves about the bowl. In the upper part of the bowl are clusters of trophies on either side and in addition on one side a cuirass and on...

TANKARD WITH FOOT AND COVER

TANKARD WITH FOOT AND COVER

Cat. no.: 12.109.1-2

Artist: Unknown

Date: ca. 1834

Around the tankard body are three pseudo-medallions made in repoussé in imitation of real medallions: 1. Nicholas I, inscribed in Russian "By God's grace, Nicholas I, Emperor and Autocrat of all...

LARGE TUMBLER

LARGE TUMBLER

Cat. no.: 12.11

Artist: Unknown

Date: 1738

The sides are decorated with three rows, each with six medallions with pseudo-classical heads in silver on a gilt ground. Between the medallions are rococo leaves in repoussé and stippling.

TUMBLER WITH FOOT

TUMBLER WITH FOOT

Cat. no.: 12.110

Artist: Ivan Bedniakov (Silversmith)

Date: 1843

The sides of the tumbler are completely decorated with elaborate scrolls and garlands on a punched ground. There are two pseudo-rococo cartouches, one with the initials of the original owner,...

CUP WITH FOOT AND HANDLE

CUP WITH FOOT AND HANDLE

Cat. no.: 12.111

Artist: Unknown

Date: ca. 1840

On the front are three medallions: one with the busts of the Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (future Emperor Alexander II) and his wife, Marie Alexandrovna, facing each other. At the left a...

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