A LOUIS XV SILVER CHOCOLATE POT FROM THE ORLOFF SERVICE
Tapering cylindrical, the upper body engraved with garlands and engraved on one side with the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle, with a baluster-form screw-off ebonized wood handle, the later lift off cover similarly engraved around the central aperture with swivel cover and bud finial, numbered 2 to the underside and flange of cover, marked on underside with maker's mark, French charge mark, and date letter, and with St. Petersburg import mark dated 1784, 91 standard mark, and assay mark HM with a pellet, the underside of the cover with maker's mark G:A.B., St. Petersburg city mark, and 84 standard mark
9¹⁄₂ in. (24.1 cm.) high
48 oz. 6 dwt. (1,502 gr.) weighable silver
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Tapering cylindrical, the upper body engraved with garlands and engraved on one side with the Russian Imperial double-headed eagle, with a baluster-form screw-off ebonized wood handle, the later lift off cover similarly engraved around the central aperture with swivel cover and bud finial, numbered 2 to the underside and flange of cover, marked on underside with maker's mark, French charge mark, and date letter, and with St. Petersburg import mark dated 1784, 91 standard mark, and assay mark HM with a pellet, the underside of the cover with maker's mark G:A.B., St. Petersburg city mark, and 84 standard mark
9¹⁄₂ in. (24.1 cm.) high
48 oz. 6 dwt. (1,502 gr.) weighable silver
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