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Lot 239 Dα

A Moscow partially gilt silver kovsh

Auction 1182 - overview Cologne
15.07.2021, 11:00 - The Exceptional Bernard De Leye Collection
Estimate: 5.000 € - 6.000 €
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A Moscow partially gilt silver kovsh

Oval vessel on a smooth base. Decorated to resemble elephant skin and with raised nodes and a narrow beaded border. The delicately chased handle designed as the head of a horse, on the opposite face a round reserve with Neo-Byzantine relief decoration. H 9, W 9, D 16 cm, weight 316 g.
Moscow, marks of Pavel Akimov Ovtchinikov

Literature

For more on Ovtchinnikov cf. Solodkoff, Russische Goldschmiedekunst, Munich 1981, with copious illustrations, and Gilodo, Russian Silver, Moscow 1994, p. 37. Cf. also Odom, Russian Silver in America, London 2011, p. 168 ff.