Oct 15, 2025 10:00 EST

Old Master Paintings / Russian Art / Silver / English & Continental Furniture

 
Lot 65
 

65

Rare Russian Silver-Gilt and Champlevé Enamel Tea and Coffee Service

Khlebnikov, Moscow, 1884

The coffee pot, teapot and cream jug of Hu form, the handled basket star-shaped, with a swing handle, enameled in black, green and red with stylized archaistic Chinese decoration, the pots with Fu lion finials.

Height of coffee pot 8 1/4 inches (21 cm), height of teapot 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm).

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$80,000 - $120,000
 

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Khlebnikov, Moscow, 1884

The coffee pot, teapot and cream jug of Hu form, the handled basket star-shaped, with a swing handle, enameled in black, green and red with stylized archaistic Chinese decoration, the pots with Fu lion finials.

Height of coffee pot 8 1/4 inches (21 cm), height of teapot 6 1/2 inches (16.5 cm).

Notes:

The firm of Khlebnikov, a distinguished supplier to the Russian Imperial Court and among the foremost silversmiths active in Russia, began producing objects influenced by Chinese design as early as the 1870s. Tea wares were a natural vehicle for such stylistic experimentation, as demonstrated by two tea caddies now in the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (https://art.thewalters.org/object/44.962; https://art.thewalters.org/object/44.789/).

By the 1880s, Khlebnikov was producing tea and coffee services that more closely emulated Chinese prototypes, though often adapted in a distinctly Russian style. Notable examples include: a silver and champlevé enamel tea service, dated 1884, decorated with birds and flowers (G. Hill, ed., Fabergé and the Russian Master Goldsmiths, New York, 1989, no. 209); a silver and champlevé enamel tea and coffee service, dated 1886–1887, decorated with dragons and flowers, sold at Sotheby’s, London, June 9, 2010, lot 550; and a silver and enamel tea and coffee service, dated 1885, decorated with flowers and butterflies, now in the collection of the Fabergé Museum, St. Petersburg.


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