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423 - Charles Nicholls & William Plincke
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Charles Nicholls & William Plincke A St. Petersburg silver service for the Russian court With gilded interiors. Comprising two covered tureens with stands, a cruet set with mustard pot and spice shaker, a further cruet set with mustard pot and oil cruet, a water-filled warming dish and a large warming cloche. Plain surfaces with restrained acanthus decoration in the Second Rococo style. All pieces except the cloche with engraved cypher AM beneath the imperial Russian crown, presumably for Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna (1860 - 1922). Height of the covered tureens 18.5 cm; diameter of the stands 22.5 cm; height of the cruet sets 16 and 23 cm respectively; total weight approx. 7,235 g. Marks of Robert Kokhun for Nicholls & Plincke and double-headed eagle mark of court suppliers, around 1880. Anastasia was the only daughter of Grand Duke Michael Nikolaievich Romanov (1832 - 1909) and his wife, Princess Cäcilie of Baden (1839 - 1891), and, following her marriage to her cousin, Hereditary Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, became Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg in 1883. Literature A dressing mirror with the same engraved cypher was sold at Christie's Paris, Collections entre Orient et Occident, 2 - 15 April 2025, lot 825.
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