Coffee spoon with image of the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin
Coffee spoon with image of the Vodovzvodnaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin
Russia, Moscow
1899–1908
M. Semenova Silverware Factory,
Silver; casting, carving, niello, gilding
Length 13.0 cm, bowl width 2.5 cm
Hallmarks on the inner surface of the bowl: for the factory – “МС”; triple hallmark of the Moscow District Assay Office of 1899–1908 – a female head in a kokoshnik turned to the left with silver fineness number “84” and initials of the assay master I. Lebedkin “ИЛ”.
Coffee spoons feature an oval, smooth, deep bowl and a twisted stem ending in a cone-shaped finial. Outer surface of each spoon's bowl is decorated with shaped (teardrop) medallions containing niello images of the Spasskaya and Vodovzvodnaya Towers of the Moscow Kremlin, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Resurrection (Iberian) Gates of the Kitay-Gorod Wall, and the Cathedral of the Intercession on the Moat; the inner surface features a carved monogram “OC”.From a coffee service with views of Moscow and monogram “OC”.
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