Russian Imperial 19C Silver Sugar Bowl, Nicholls & Plincke, St. Petersburg, 1859

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Russian Imperial 19C Silver Sugar Bowl, Nicholls & Plincke, St. Petersburg, 1859:
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AntiqueRare Russian Imperial 19C Silver Sugar Bowl, St. Petersburg, 1859

Workshop of Nicholls& Plincke (worked 1786 - 1880)

Hallmarks:
-maker’s mark
- St. Petersburg city mark
-mark of the assayer with date 1859
- 84 zolotniki silver mark

Dimensions: 12.5 x16 x 12 cm (4.91 x 6.29 x 4.72 in)
Weight: 389 g (13.72 oz)

A matching teapot is on offer at our other sale.

DESCRIPTION:

Rare Russian silversugar bowl in Louis Philippe style, made in the most prestigiousworkshop of St. Petersburg before 1880.

Established in 1786by John Pickersgill the firm was later (since 1815) owned by Charles(Konstantin) Nicholls and William Plincke, who in 1804 gained Russiancitizenship. In 1808 they became members of the first guild. In 1844both silversmiths were awarded hereditary honorary citizenship.

The workshop ofNicholls & Plincke provided silverware to the Tsars, startingwith Christmas presents made for Nicholas I in the 1830s, to laterbecome the main supplier to the imperial court. They produced silversets for the dowries for all three Tsar daughters, Grand DuchessMaria Nikolaevna (1839), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna (1840) andGrand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna (1843), contributed to the Londonservice of Tsar Alexander II and the Orlov service.

Cooperation withother British workshops and local masters allowed to take part incommissions such as fireplaces for the Malachite Room in the WinterPalace (1838–39) or decorating of the malachite columns for themain iconostasis in St Isaac’s Cathedral (1844–48). Nicholls &Plincke were also makers of the Russian orders (1855-1880).

The firm was closed1880, due to the raising competition of other workshops, such as theone of Peter Carl Fabergé.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

M.M.Postnikova-Loseva, N.G. Platonova, B.L. Uľjanova, Zolotoje iserebrjanoje delo XV-XX vv. (territorija SSSR), Moscow 1983, p. 178,198
G. Watts, Russian silversmiths\' hallmarks 1700 to 1817, Bath2006, p. 26.
More detailed history of the shop you will find at rusartnet.com.

CONDITION:

Very good with slight traces of age.

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