Solitaire tea-set [in the Muir & Merrilees Store case]: glass, glass holder, tea spoon
Solitaire tea-set [in the Muir & Merrilees Store case]: glass, glass holder, tea spoon
Russian Empire, Saint-Petersburg / Moscow
Last quarter of the 19th- early 20th centuries
Silver, glass; presswork, engraving, gilding, enamel over engraving
Glass holder: height 8 cm; bottom diameter 5.9 cm, the upper edge (crown) diameter 6.4 cm. Glass: height 9.2 cm, diameter 7.1 cm. Spoon: length 13.2 cm
1). Glass holder: maker’s mark – two crossed anchors and a sceptre, silver alloy “84” ; 2) . Spoon: maker’s mark – “П.Ш.”; mark of Moscow (?) district assay office in 1899-1908 – female head in kokoshnik facing to left, with silver alloy “83” and initials of the district assay manager (illegible).
Tea set consists of glass, silver glass holder with enamel pattern and a teaspoon. Cylindrical glass, with slightly widened upper edge, with the engraved meander belt with inclusion of foliage ornament in it in the upper part with meander belt the low part, adorned with stylized palmettes. Cylindrical glass holder with expanding downwards body is on circular base, with ornately shaped handle. The glass holder body is decorated with enamel image of two daisies on long stems. The handle is adorned with curls. The teaspoon is with smooth oval deep cup and twisted handle with bulbous finial. Tea set is embedded in wooden case of the Muir & Merrilees Store* Moscow.
Инв.318.1-4/ДПИ