A RUSSIAN SILVER AND ENAMEL SUGAR BOWL AND TONGS. MOSCOW, CIRCA 1900S

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Start price: $1,200

Estimated price: $1,500 - $2,200

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Vasiliy Andreev, Moscow, 1899-1908.

Russian silver-gilt and cloisonne enamel sugar bowl and sugar tongs. The sugar bowl is decorated with a broad band of shaded flowers and scrolls in green, pink and blue cloisonne enamel over a pink ground, the swing handle is similarly decorated over a deep turquoise ground, gilded interior. Sugar tongs are decorated with stylized vary color enamel floral and foliate ornaments over a stippled gilt ground within a blue pellet border. Sugar bowl hallmarks: 84 Russian silver standard, ‘VA’ in Cyrillic.

Tongs hallmarks 84 Russian silver standard, illegible maker’s and assay’s hallmarks.

Weight: 9.4 oz., (268 g.)

H: 2 1/4 in., (6 cm.)

Condition: The sugar ball is in very good condition. Light rubbing to interior gilding and minor scratching associated with age. Tongs also in very good condition, nothing to note.

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