Russian Imperial-era Silver Caviar Spoon by Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1913
$750.00
This Russian silver spoon was presented the year of the Romanov Tercentenary in 1913. Its fig shaped bowl with gilded interior, the exterior engraved with cipher above “Moscou, Septembre 1913”, the tapered stem with onion dome finial, in original cardboard case stamped in Ovchinnikov Moscow in Cyrillic.
Stamped Cyrillic P O. by Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1908-17.
5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.) long.
Moscow silversmith and enameller, Pavel Ovchinnikov, a former serf, opened a workshop in 1853 and by 1881 had built a silver dynasty that was the largest in the Russian Empire. He received the title of Purveyor to the Imperial Court from Tsar Alexander III on August 18, 1881, and from to the Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich on May 21, 1878. His sons, Mikhail, Aleksei, Pavel & Nikolai each received the title of Court Purveyors on May 17, 1894, and again on March 8, 1896 by the new tsar, Nicholas II.
This Russian silver spoon was presented the year of the Romanov Tercentenary in 1913. Its fig shaped bowl with gilded interior, the exterior engraved with cipher above “Moscou, Septembre 1913”, the tapered stem with onion dome finial, in original cardboard case stamped in Ovchinnikov Moscow in Cyrillic.
Stamped Cyrillic P O. by Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1908-17.
5 3/4 in. (14.6 cm.) long.
Moscow silversmith and enameller, Pavel Ovchinnikov, a former serf, opened a workshop in 1853 and by 1881 had built a silver dynasty that was the largest in the Russian Empire. He received the title of Purveyor to the Imperial Court from Tsar Alexander III on August 18, 1881, and from to the Grand Duke Mikhail Nikolaevich on May 21, 1878. His sons, Mikhail, Aleksei, Pavel & Nikolai each received the title of Court Purveyors on May 17, 1894, and again on March 8, 1896 by the new tsar, Nicholas II.
For more information on the imperial silversmith Ovchinnikov see, Beyond Fabergé: Imperial Russian Jewelry by Marie Betteley and David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, Schiffer Publishing, 2020.