SERVICE OF THE TSAR PAUL I - Lot 282

Lot 282
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SERVICE OF THE TSAR PAUL I - Lot 282
SERVICE OF THE TSAR PAUL I FOR THE WINTER PALACE. By BLOHM, St. Petersburg, 1780. A gilt-edged oval tea caddy engraved with the monogram P. M. (Paul and Maria) under an imperial crown, having belonged to the emperor Paul I and his wife the empress Maria Feodorovna. Slight wear, small bumps, but good condition. Title mark: St. Petersburg, 1780. Goldsmith's mark: Johan Henrik Blohm, active from 1759 to 1805. Master assayer's mark: Evrard Borovshikov, active from 1777 to 1800. Inventory number of the imperial palace furniture repository: 7 (Winter Palace, St. Petersburg). H. : 10,5 cm - W. : 8 cm - L. : 5,8 cm. Weight : 218 g. Provenance: this tea caddy was made for the grand-ducal heir of Russia, future Paul I, some time after his marriage to 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, in the years 1920-1930, it will be sold by the government. Reference: see of this service a coffee pot reproduced in the book Russian Silver in America, by Anne Odom, published in 2011, page 95, dated 1794 and found in the collections of the Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, coming from the former collection of Ralph Sylvester Bartlett (1868-1960) and offered by the latter in 1889 (n° 159.2.22444).
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