A PARCEL-GILT, SILVER-MOUNTED AND ENAMELLED WOOD PRESENTATION CHARGER

A PARCEL-GILT, SILVER-MOUNTED AND ENAMELLED WOOD PRESENTATION CHARGER

MARKED KHLEBNIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, ST PETERSBURG, CIRCA 1915

Circular, the silver mounts elaborately repoussé and chased with foliage and geometric motifs in the Neo-Russian style and set with hardstone cabochons, the upper rim centring an en plein enamel plaque depicting a walled city by a river, flanked by two silver-gilt bogatyrs, the lower rim centring a cartouche engraved with inscription in Russian \'Bryansk Zemstvo is Bowing to His Imperial Highness Emperor Nicholas Aleksandrovich on 20 April 1915\', marked on mounts, inscribed in Cyrillic and numbered \'A.D-M 843 n355\' (on the reverse)

17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) diameter