ANTIQUE 20thC RUSSIAN SOLID SILVER GILT & CLOISONNÉ ENAMEL SPOONS c.1900

Antique 20th Century set of six Russian solid silver gilt and cloisonné enamel spoons. Each spoon is decorated to the reverse of its elegant teardrop shaped bowl with a finely stylised floral design, incorporating scrolling foliage and delicate flowerheads in a vibrant palette of rose pink, turquoise, pale blue, emerald green, cobalt blue and opaque white enamels. The intricate decoration is worked in traditional cloisonné enamel, with fine silver gilt wirework defining the individual petals and scrolling leaves against a richly textured gilt ground. Each bowl is further framed by a continuous border of small circular white enamel beads.

The silver gilt stems are beautifully fashioned with alternating plain and spiral-twist sections, terminating in elongated panels of vivid turquoise and deep cobalt blue enamelling, separated by delicate twisted-wire borders and finished with elegant fleur-de-lis-shaped finials. The interiors of the spoon bowls retain their warm gilded finish. The spoons are housed in a fitted wooden presentation case.

Hallmarked Russian Silver 84 (875 standard), Moscow, circa 1900, Maker's Mark HA (Nikolay Alekseyev).

Reference Number: P12678