Antique Authentic XIX c. Russian Empire 840 Silver Purse Niello Decorated Marked

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Antique Authentic XIX c. Russian Empire 840 Silver Purse Niello Decorated Marked:
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Item DescriptionAntique Authentic XIX c. Russian Empire 840 Silver Purse Niello Decorated MarkedDetails

This beautiful purse is made in the Russian Empire. Its composition is the typical 840 royal Russian silver. The specific black decoration is called NIELLO - a technique used to make ornaments on precious metals. The script on the purse is \"Kavkaz\" which means the Russian word for Caucasus. I believe that this purse belonged to someone of the Russian aristocracy - it\'s doubtful that an ordinary man or woman could have possessed such an expensive jewel. The item has the markings of the Russian Empire - a royal head and 840 (for the silver purity). This is one really rare and authentic item, which comes from a distant and magical age.

More about the Niello decoration:

black metallic alloy of sulfur with silver, copper, or lead that is used to fill designs that have been engraved on the surface of a metal (usually silver) object. Niello is made by fusing together silver, copper, and lead and then mixing the molten alloy with sulfur. The resulting black-coloured sulfides are powdered, and after the engraved metal, usually silver, has been moistened with a flux, some of the powder is spread on it and the metal strongly heated; the niello melts and runs into the engraved channels. The excess niello is then removed by scraping until the filled channels are clearly visible, and finally the surface is polished. The contrast of the black niello against the bright silver surface produces an attractive decorative effect.

Objects decorated with niello, called nielli, are usually small in scale. During theRenaissance, at the height of its popularity, the technique was widely used for the embellishment of liturgical objects and for the decoration of such utilitarian objects as cups, boxes, knife handles, and belt buckles. Before filling in the incised design with niello, Renaissance metalsmiths commonly made a record of the design by making a sulfur cast of the engraved metal plate or by taking its impression on paper.

Nielli were produced by the ancient Romans, and the ring of King Aethelwulf (839–858) in the British Museum demonstrates that the technique was well established in England at an early date. Theartof niello reached its peak in 15th-century Italy in the workshop of the Florentine goldsmithMaso Finiguerra. Russian goldsmiths working in Tula in the late 18th century revived the craft, and niello work came to be known in Russia as Tula work. Fine quality niello is still being produced in India and the Balkans.

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