IMPERIAL SERVICE OF THE WINTER PALACE FOR... - Lot 281 - Coutau-Bégarie

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IMPERIAL SERVICE OF THE WINTER PALACE FOR... - Lot 281 - Coutau-Bégarie
IMPERIAL SERVICE OF THE WINTER PALACE FOR THE IMPERATOR CATHERINE II AND HER FAMILY. By BLOHM, St. Petersburg, 1780. A vermeil coffee pot, of straight form, slightly flared downwards, resting on a circular base, with engraved decoration of the double-headed eagle of the Romanoffs under an imperial crown. Blackened wooden grip and handle (not original). Slight wear from the time, small dents, but good condition. Title stamp : Saint Petersburg, 1780. Goldsmith's stamp : Johan Henrik Blohm, active from 1759 to 1805. Master assayer's stamp : Evrard Borovshikov, active from 1777 to 1800. Inventory number of the imperial palaces' furniture depository : 1 (winter palace, Saint Petersburg). H. : 21 cm - W. : 10 cm - Gross weight : 805 g. Provenance : this coffee pot was made during the reign of Empress Catherine II (1762-1796), for the empress and the imperial family. It then entered the collections of the Imperial Furniture Guard, according to the inventory drawn up in 1907 by Baron A. de Foelkersam, published in Saint Petersburg under the title: "Inventory of the Silverware kept in the Imperial Palace Furniture Guard". After the Russian Revolution, it was sold during the Soviet era, in the years 1920-1930. It was put on sale in 1936, by the Old Russia, as we can see in the advertisement published on this occasion in the magazine Connoisseur, of December 1936. The description of this advertisement corresponds exactly to the one of our coffee pot. See the reference of this information in the book Russian Silver in America, by Anne Odom, published in 2011, page 27.
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