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A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908 image 1
A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908 image 2
A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908 image 3
A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908 image 4
A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908 image 5
Lot 52

A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch
Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908

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5 July 2024, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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A late 19th century Russian Regimental silver kovsch

Mikhail Ovchinnikov, with the imperial warrant, St Petersburg, 1888 - 1908
Of traditional form, with applied bead rim, below the rim in relief the Cyrillic inscription 'Краса пирующих друзей, Забав и радостей подружка', (The beauty of feasting friends, Fun and joys girlfriend), these are the first two lines from the famous and fun poem and song 'Mug' by Gavrila Derzhavin, profusely decorated below, with mythological birds among scrolls and foliage, reserve to the front and the shaped handle with a mythological birds head, bifurcated junction terminating with leaf scrolls, the interior of the bowl gilt, on an oval collet foot, underside of the base engraved with a spiral of some 50 names, possibly for Preobrazhensky Life Guards Regiment, height at front 22.2cm, length 40.7cm, weight 73.8oz.

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The mark of Mikhail Ovchinnikov first appeared in 1888 after the death of his father, the celebrated silversmith Pavel Ovchinnikov. Mikhail was the eldest son of Pavel Ovchinnikov and took over his father's firm.

The translation of the Cyrillic script 'The beauty of feasting friends, Fun and joys girlfriend' comes from the first two lines of the poem and song 'Mug' by Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816), a renowned Russian poet and statesman of the 18th and 19th centuries.

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