Ten-piece Russian .875 Silver Tea and Coffee Service, St. Petersburg, c. 1860/61, marked with maker's mark "NP" surmounted by the Imperial Warrant and "PK" for Nicholls and Plinke, each with an engraved monogram below an Imperial crown, comprising a kettle-on-stand with burner, coffeepot, teapot, hot milk pot, creamer, sugar, waste bowl, cake basket, frosted glass biscuit jar, and tongs, kettle-on-stand ht. 15 5/8 in., approx. 231.6 troy oz. (not including biscuit jar). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Russian Works of Art, December 1985, Lot 50. N.B. The Imperial monogram "M.M" is probably for Grand Duke Michael Michalaevich, grandson of Nickolas I.
Ten-piece Russian .875 Silver Tea and Coffee Service, St. Petersburg, c. 1860/61, marked with maker's mark "NP" surmounted by the Imperial Warrant and "PK" for Nicholls and Plinke, each with an engraved monogram below an Imperial crown, comprising a kettle-on-stand with burner, coffeepot, teapot, hot milk pot, creamer, sugar, waste bowl, cake basket, frosted glass biscuit jar, and tongs, kettle-on-stand ht. 15 5/8 in., approx. 231.6 troy oz. (not including biscuit jar). Provenance: Sotheby's New York, Russian Works of Art, December 1985, Lot 50. N.B. The Imperial monogram "M.M" is probably for Grand Duke Michael Michalaevich, grandson of Nickolas I.
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