COFFEEPOT FROM A COFFEE SERVICE

Made by: Fabergé

Currently in storage

About this object

The coffee pot has a plain body except where the spout rises which has reeding topped by a palmette, the spout being the head of the bird. Around the top of the body is a row of laurel leaves and berries and at the top leaves and flowers and an ivory finial. The handles have an acanthus leaf at the upper end and a stylized leaf at the lower end. There are two pieces of ivory. The lower part of the body and the oval foot have each a row of laurel leaves and berries - the interior is gilded.

Category:

silverwork

Object name:

COFFEEPOT FROM A COFFEE SERVICE

Made from:

Silver

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

1908-1917

Size:

24.1 cm (9 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

12.566.2

Class:

SILVER

Signature marks:

MARK K. Faberge in Cyrillic letters surmounted by the Imperial eagle indicating an Imperial warrant, the type of marking used by the Moscow branch; also, the Kokoshnik facing right for 1908-1917 together with 88 for the silver standard and delta for Moscow assaymaster's office; scratch number 55943

Credit line:

Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1968

Displayed in exhibition:

Fabergé Rediscovered

Featured in publication:

"Fabergé Rediscovered"