Description

A Russian silver-gilt and cloisonné enamel two-handled tazza
Orest Kurliukov, Moscow, 1896-1908
extensively decorated with scrolling foliage, the shaped oval dish supported on a baluster foot, the outer border with lobed scrolls, the with spiralling lobes with scrolling foliage and swans on a turquoise ground, the centre with a blue-ground quatrefoil decorated with ears of corn eminating from a central yellow rosette, the pierced scroll handles with floral scrolling and flower heads
40cm wide, 14.5cm high
Provenance:
Christie’s New York, The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, 20th October 1998, lot 221
Literature:
A Von Solodkoff, Orfeverrie Russe (Fribourg, 1981), illus page 67

Footnote

Provenance:
The Greenfield Collection of Russian Enamels, Christie's New York, 20th October 1998, lot 221

Literature: A Von Solodkoff, Orfeverrie Russe (Fribourg, 1981), illus page 67