Daria Khristova nee Chernenko
Department Director
Lot 127
A silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel sugar tazza and creamer Antip Kuzmichev, Moscow, 1880s
1 December 2021, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£5,000 - £7,000
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Jacqueline Senior
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A silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel sugar tazza and creamer
Antip Kuzmichev, Moscow, 1880s
each with a lobed bowl raised on a shaped circular spreading foot, the sugar tazza with two scroll handles, the creamer with one scroll handle and open spout, decorated throughout with stylized foliage, fleur-de-lis, swags and abstract geometric motifs in varicoloured enamel on stippled gilt ground, the gilded interior bowl of the sugar tazza and the gilded spout of the creamer engraved with Cyrillic monogram 'MV,' the undersides of the bases with scratched inventory numbers '408', 88 standard
height of tazza: 10cm (3 15/16in).
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each with a lobed bowl raised on a shaped circular spreading foot, the sugar tazza with two scroll handles, the creamer with one scroll handle and open spout, decorated throughout with stylized foliage, fleur-de-lis, swags and abstract geometric motifs in varicoloured enamel on stippled gilt ground, the gilded interior bowl of the sugar tazza and the gilded spout of the creamer engraved with Cyrillic monogram 'MV,' the undersides of the bases with scratched inventory numbers '408', 88 standard
height of tazza: 10cm (3 15/16in).
(2)
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Provenance
Bonhams, Russian Art, 4 June 2014, lot 116
Private collection, UK