A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TANKARD

MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AG' POSSIBLY FOR ALEXANDER HILDEBRAND, MOSCOW, 1762

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A PARCEL-GILT SILVER TANKARD
MAKER'S MARK CYRILLIC 'AG' POSSIBLY FOR ALEXANDER HILDEBRAND, MOSCOW, 1762
Cylindrical, on three claw-and-ball feet, the body applied with three gilt medallions of Emperor Peter I, Empress Elizabeth I and Empress Catherine I, each below the Imperial crown and flanked by two crowned lions, the body further applied with scrolling foliage and rocaille scrolls, the hinged cover similarly decorated with profiles of three monarchs within scrolling foliage and Imperial double-headed eagles, bud thumb-piece, the scroll handle chased with rocaille and c-scrolls, marked under base, on cover and handle
8 7/8 in. (22.6 cm.) high
58.98 gr. (1834.4 gr.)

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James Murphy, a dentist in St Petersburg in the late nineteenth century, who is believed to have attended the Emperor.
Given to his grand-niece, Josephine Murphy, upon her marriage to Sir Somerset French in 1893.
An inherited estate.

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A tankard dated 1762 and with similar applied decoration is held in the collection of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. See Z.A. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - The Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrand, 1977, no. 37.