Description

A silver-gilt and red enamel four-piece tea-service
Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1883-85
the egg-shaped teapot cast and chased with flowers and applied with a bee, the hinged lid cast with the figure of a lizard, the body with deep-red enamel; the sugar basin and cover and the milk jug similarly decorated and applied with various insects, the lid with an open flower and a bee; the shaped triangular tray cast and chased with a spider in his web with dragonfly prey (4)
Width of tray: 27.5cm, height of teapot: 10cm
Provenance:
Christie’s Geneva, Fine Russian Works of Art, Geneva, 18th November 1980, lot 127
Christie’s New York, June 26th 1980, lot 74 for a carafe set with an identical tray

Footnote

Provenance:
Christie's Geneva, Fine Russian Works of Art, Geneva, 18th November 1980, lot 127

Christie's New York, June 26th 1980, lot 74 for a carafe set with an identical tray