RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 11th December, 2020
19th Century Imperial Russian silver & champleve enamel tea glass holder, circular shaped and applied with angular handle with oval thumbpiece, plain rim and spreading domed foot, body decorated with champleve enamel depicting two angels holding a ribbon tied garland, centred by the initial J. Absolutely exquisite quality and impeccable use of shaded enamel, original lemon gilding inside.
Hallmarked Russian silver 88 (915 standard), Moscow, year 1878, Assay Master B.C (Victor Savinsky, active 1859-1894), Maker's mark in Cyrillic for Ivan Khlebnikov.
Reference Number: B6632
19th Century Victorian silver hunting water jug, the body profusely decorated in relief with embossed hunting scenes, depicting horse riders and hounds chasing a deer. The side applied with a handle cast as two intertwined snakes, jug supported by a cast figure of a deer, standing on a tapering base and formed as a duke’s coronet.
Hallmarked English silver (925 standard), Birmingham, year 1897 (x), Maker's mark E&CoLD for Elkington & Co Ltd.
Reference Number: A6428