A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH

A PARCEL-GILT SILVER AND NIELLO IMPERIAL PRESENTATION KOVSH

MAKER\'S MARK INDISTINCT, MOSCOW, 1820

Of traditional form with raised prow and handle, the bowl repoussé with a circular reserve centring an Imperial double-headed eagle with the orb and sceptre, centring an escutcheon with the cypher of Emperor Alexander I, within ribbon-tied laurel border, the inside of the prow later engraved with the Arms of Wimborne, the sides engraved with Russian dedication inscription \'Andrey Andreevich Mizinov, Ataman of the Uralskii Voisko\' within laurel nielloed borders reserves, the prow and reverse centring trophies of war, the shaped handle nielloed with the cypher of Alexander I surmounted by the Imperial crown on chevron ground, the finial cast and chased as an Imperial double-headed eagle, marked on interior reserve

9½ in. (24 cm.) wide

12.33 oz. (349.7 gr.)