RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 14th November, 2019
19th Century Austrian exceptional solid silver gilt and hand painted enamel hunting horn. The silver gilt mounts pierced and painted with multi-coloured enamels, sections painted with classical hunting scenes and terminating in a realistically modeled fox head and paws.
Hallmarked Austrian silver (800), Vienna, circa 1890, Maker's mark KB for Karl Bank.
Reference Number: A5945
20th Century Imperial Russian silver and hand painted enamel, cushion shaped pill box, all side decorated with traditional Russian stylised flowers, foliage, geometric designs in polychrome cloisonne' enamel, the lid is hand painted with a rose surrounded by a white beaded boarder, the snuff box is richly parcel gilded inside.
Hallmarked Russian silver 84 (875), Moscow, year 1908-1926, Maker's mark 20th Artel.
Reference Number: A6058
Antique early-20th Century Imperial Russian solid silver & cut-glass bowl, mounted with twin leaf capped handles, the boarder decorated with flowers, laurels and ribbons. Hallmarked Russian 84 silver (875 standard), St-Petersburg, year 1915-1917, Maker's mark 15A, F/S (15th Artel)
Reference Number: A6025
20th Century Imperial Russian silver & shaded cloisonne' enamel Kovsh, of traditional oval form, with raised prow and hook handle, the body beautifully decorated with various shaded polychrome cloisonne' enamel with stylised scrolling foliage and geometric motifs.
Hallmarked Russian silver 84 (875), Moscow, year 1908-1917, Maker in Cyrillic GA for Grigory Sbitnev.
Reference Number: A6069