TEAPOT FROM A TEA SERVICE
Creator(s): Gustav Klingert (Silversmith)
Currently in storage
About this object
Teapot, creamer, sugar and two cups and saucers all have same decoration. Background is roughtened and gilded. Surface of all has an all over scroll design of formalized leaf and flowers in filigree enamel, red, white, blue, turquoise and red. All enamel is opaque with exaption of the red color which if transparent. All is decorated in filigree enamel with exception of teacup handles which are executed in champleve enamel
- Object name:
- TEAPOT FROM A TEA SERVICE
- Made from:
- Silver gilt -- enamel -- mother of pearl
- Made in:
- Moscow, Russia
- Date made:
- 1899-1908
- Size:
- 20.3 cm (8 in.)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 15.112.1
- Class:
- ENAMEL
- Signature marks:
- MARK kokoshnik left, IL in cyrillic for the tester Ivan Lebedkin, 84, GK in cyrillic for the maker Gustav Klingert. On 15.112.6 Tea cup is additional mark (import?) overstriking the maker's mark.
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973