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Lot Essay
Andrey Ivanovich Lopatin, the recipient of the present kovsh, was the Nakaznoi Ataman of the Don Voisko between 1723 and 1735.
For a similar Imperial presentation kovsh by Ilarion Artem’ev, see Z.Z. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, pl. 30. For another similar kovsh, see S.Ya. Kovarskaya, Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves, Moscow, 1984, p. 79, no. 63.
For a similar Imperial presentation kovsh by Ilarion Artem’ev, see Z.Z. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, pl. 30. For another similar kovsh, see S.Ya. Kovarskaya, Russian Silver of the Fourteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries from the Moscow Kremlin Reserves, Moscow, 1984, p. 79, no. 63.