Lot n° 279
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: 141 680EUR
IMPERIAL WINTER PALACE SERVICE FOR THE IMPERATOR CATHERINE I - Lot 279
IMPERIAL WINTER PALACE SERVICE FOR THE IMPERATOR CATHERINE II AND HER FAMILY.
By KOLB, St. Petersburg, 1784-1788 and after 1793.
A set of vermeilware, consisting of a baluster teapot, with "bonnet" lid, fluted spout and blackened wooden openwork handle (not original); a covered sugar bowl of oval shape; a milk jug and a circular convex serving bowl. Each element is engraved with the double-headed eagle of the Romanoffs under the imperial crown. A large plain rectangular tray, in vermeil bordered with nets and resting on four rolled feet, engraved in the center with the monogram P. M. (Paul and Maria) under imperial crown, having belonged to the emperor Paul I and his wife the empress Maria Feodorovna. Slight wear, small dents, but good condition.
Title mark: 78, St. Petersburg, 1784, 1788.
Goldsmith's mark: Friedrich Kolb, active from 1793 to 1826.
Master assayer's mark: Nikifor Moschchalkin, active from 1772 to 1800. Inventory number of the imperial palace furniture repository: 208, 11, 1, 22, 9 (Winter Palace, St. Petersburg).
Tray : H. : 2,5 cm - L. : 42,5 cm - W. : 33,5 cm.
Teapot : H. : 16 cm - L. : 22 cm - Diam. : 11 cm.
Milk pot : H. : 11,5 cm - L. : 16,5 cm - W. 8 cm.
Cup : H. 8 cm - Diam. 14,5 cm.
Sugar bowl : H. 8,5 cm - W. 14 cm - L. 11 cm.
Weight : 1 k 930 g.; 862 g.; 201 g.; 356 g.; 402g.
Provenance: this magnificent vermeil tea service was made during the reign of Empress Catherine II (1762-1796), for the sovereign, her family and her son, the crown grand duke of Russia, future Paul I, some time after his marriage with his second wife, born Princess Sophie-Dorothée of Wurtemberg. It then entered the collections of the Imperial Furniture Guard, according to the inventory drawn up in 1907 by Baron A. de Foelkersam and published in St. Petersburg under the title: "Inventory of the Silverware kept in the Imperial Palace Furniture Guard". Then during the Soviet period, during the years 1920-1930, it will be sold by the government.
Reference: see a similar model of teapot and sugar bowl in the book Russian Silver in America, by Anne Odom, published in 2011, page 93.
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