A FINE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SET
MARK OF DMITRY SHELAPUTIN, RETAILED BY OLOVYANISHNIKOV SONS, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
A FINE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SET MARK OF DMITRY SHELAPUTIN, RETAILED BY OLOVYANISHNIKOV SONS, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 Comprising a chalice on a domed circular foot, a communion spoon, two small circular patens, a four-legged étoilé stand and a paten on a domed circular foot; the patens engraved with biblical scenes within borders with Russian inscriptions from the Eucharist, the chalice cast and chased with scrolling foliage, applied with cartouches depicting Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, the étoilé and spoon similarly decorated with scrolling foliage, marked throughout; in the original silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped in Russian ‘Firm of P.I. Olovyanishnikov’s Sons / St Petersburg Moscow / Yaroslavl’ beneath the Imperial warrant, with original key The chalice 11 in. (28 cm.) high 72.73 oz. (2,262.2 gr.)
A FINE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SET
MARK OF DMITRY SHELAPUTIN, RETAILED BY OLOVYANISHNIKOV SONS, MOSCOW, 1908-1917
A FINE SILVER-GILT COMMUNION SET MARK OF DMITRY SHELAPUTIN, RETAILED BY OLOVYANISHNIKOV SONS, MOSCOW, 1908-1917 Comprising a chalice on a domed circular foot, a communion spoon, two small circular patens, a four-legged étoilé stand and a paten on a domed circular foot; the patens engraved with biblical scenes within borders with Russian inscriptions from the Eucharist, the chalice cast and chased with scrolling foliage, applied with cartouches depicting Jesus Christ, Virgin Mary and John the Baptist, the étoilé and spoon similarly decorated with scrolling foliage, marked throughout; in the original silk and velvet-lined wood case stamped in Russian ‘Firm of P.I. Olovyanishnikov’s Sons / St Petersburg Moscow / Yaroslavl’ beneath the Imperial warrant, with original key The chalice 11 in. (28 cm.) high 72.73 oz. (2,262.2 gr.)
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