Important Silversmiths – Ignaty Sazikov
19th Century Important Imperial Russian silver Royal presentation cigar garniture, on octagonal base, naturalistically formed as a peasant standing on rocky ground and smoking a pipe, standing next on a barrel forming a cigar holder, with a bucket nearby forming a match holder, both with gilt interiors, also with an axe with pierced centre attached to a hollow tree-stump forming a cigar-cutter, with a detachable hidden base for cigar trimmings, the base engraved 'Presented by His Imperial Highness / The Grand Duke Alexis of Russia / to Edward S. Sanford / Pensacola Florida. Feb. 22nd 1872',.
Hallmarked with Russian Silver marks (84), St-Petersburg, Mark for Sazikov and Imperial Warrant.
Reference Number: A2345
Ignaty Sazikov (in Russian: Игнатий Сазиков) is undoubtedly one of the most important Russian silversmiths and jewellers of all times.
Born in Moscow province in 1793, he moved with his family to Moscow where he was apprenticed to his father. At his father’s death in 1830, he inherited his workshop and opened a factory in St. Petersburg and a professional school for eighty goldsmiths and silversmiths. In 1846 the firm received the Imperial Warrant by Tsar Nicholas I, becoming official supplier of the Tsar.
19th Century Imperial Russian silver 6 piece tea service on tray, comprising of hot water kettle, teapot, coffee pot, covered sugar bowl, cream jug and cake basket, inside richly parcel gilt, of partially fluted design, resting on a flat foot, made in typical Russian pan-Slavic style. Hallmarked Russian silver, Maker's mark for Sazikov.
Reference Number: B5004
19th Century Russian Empire Silver Chinoiserie jug, of traditional baluster shape on a flared stepped circular foot, the body embossed with foliage and flowers surrounding two panels depicting a Chinese man holding two birds on a stick and a net.
Hallmarked Russian Silver (84), Moscow, year 1861, Mark for Sazikov and Imperial Warrant.
Reference Number: A1498
The firm exhibited in several World Fairs: at the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 Ignaty gained the gold medal and in 1867 he was awarded with the legion d’Honneur at the Exposition Universelle in Paris.
At his death, his two sons Pavel and Sergei took over the business and until 1887, when the company was sold to Khlebnikov.
The firm produced mainly tablewares and objects of vertu in Neo-Russian style as well as sculptural and figurative pieces representing historical themes or genre scenes.