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MAY 2023 DECORATIVE & FINE ART SALE
Lot 75:
A group of three Russian silver-gilt and niello beakers
Comprising: one decorated with flowers on a textured ground flanking two large circular reserves, one with an equestrian portrait of tsar Nicholas I in military uniform, the other a ship in port; also a similar beaker, the two reserves depicting falconet’s equestrian statue of peter the great, the other with an architectural view; and a third similar but smaller beaker, the reserves depicting an equestrian portrait of tsar Nicholas I in military uniform looking through a telescope and an architectural view.
All are hallmarked: 84, A.K, St. George (Moscow), 183?/1845/1847
Total weight: 15.5 o. (482 g.)
Provenance: CHRISTIE’S INTERIORS, 30 JUNE 2015 | LIVE AUCTION 10650.
Condition: Very good with minor losses to the niello.
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