Dessert spoon with enamel miniature “View of the Vasilyevsky Island Spit" (based on a painting by A. Beggrow)
Dessert spoon with enamel miniature “View of the Vasilyevsky Island Spit" (based on a painting by A. Beggrow)
Russia, Moscow
1908-1917
Fabergé firm, Rückert Friedrich workshop
Silver; enamel over filigree, painted "en plein" enamel, gilding, foiling
Length 16 cm
Marks: "К.ФАБЕРЖЕ"; two-headed eagle; ..R’ (indistinct); tee of the Moscow District Assay Office 1908-1917 with the assay figure “88”; inv.№ “17975”
Spoon with a round smooth deep cup, rounded stem with a moulded bump at the end. The external side of the spoon is decorated with an en plein enamel miniature based on the painting ‘Petersburg from the Neva side’ by A. Beggrow. The miniature is framed by a stylised enamel scanned foliage-geometric pattern filigree knots; half of the spoon stem is decorated with a stylised geometric ornament of triangles. The colouring of enamels is based on a combination of blue, green and grey colours with numerous shades.
Инв.1049/ДПИ