IVAN KHLEBNIKOV - LARGE RUSSIAN SILVER SERVING SPOON
A Russian gilt-silver serving spoon, decorated with enamel rose-and-blue floral patterns on the back of the circular spoon bowl and on both sides of the flat-tip handle.
HALLMARKS: with Kokoshnik '84' silver mark and silversmith mark in Cyrillic for Ivan Khlebnikov - please see informayion below.
CONDITION: Very good condition for its age. The item is described to the best of our knowledge. For further information, please refer to the pictures and feel free to contact us via email with any questions.
DIMENSIONS: L. 8 1/4 inches (21 cm). Weight: 2.6 oz (72 grams).
ESTIMATE PRICE: $2,000 - $4,000.
HISTORY of SALES: A few years ago, Russian silver serving spoons were sold on Live Auctioneers for $3,700, and $4,800, on Christie's for $8,000, and $11,500 - please refer to the screenshots for details.
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WIKIPEDIA: Khlebnikov was an Imperial Russian jewelry firm, founded ca. 1867 by Ivan Khlebnikov in Saint Petersburg, but transferred to Moscow in 1871. The business was highly successful and received the Imperial Warrant producing work of originality and highest quality using decoration in the traditional Russian style on many pieces. Enamel was a speciality especially plique-a-jour, but also cloisonne. Demand for its work was high and in 1882 it employed 200 craftsmen. The business succumbed at the time of the Russian Revolution. Sazikov's successor, Khlebnikov, who opened his Moscow workshop about 1870, won prizes at the great European exhibitions and achieved international fame for enameled silver. Among the Khlebnikov specialties were silver chasing and casting to simulate wood, birch bark, and fabric. This kind of trompe-l'oeil design was an extremely popular aspect of the pan-Slavic style, and in addition to boxes and cigar cases engraved to look like actual cigar boxes, including their labels and tariff stamps, Khlebnikov and other makers also produced trays and salvers in the form of woven reed fruit baskets, sometimes with a draped napkin and occasionally a leafy fruited twig, entirely done in chased and wrought silver. These were so popular abroad that Tiffany and Company in the United States retailed IMPORTED examples, and firms like Gorham COPIED them for their own market.

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