A RUSSIAN PARCEL-GILT SILVER FLATWARE SERVICE BY NICHOLLS AND PLINCKE, WORKMASTERS ANDERS LONG AND
Details
Comprising: twenty-four tablespoons, twenty-four dessert spoons, twenty-four dinner forks, twenty-four dessert forks, twenty-four table knives, twenty-three dessert knives, two shell-shaped butter dishes, four shell-shaped salts, two serving spoons, two asparagus tongs,
one soup-ladle; the handles chased with foliate scrolls and rocaille ornaments, the shell-shaped dishes and salts on three shell-shaped feet, all but two pieces engraved with the coat-of-arms of the Koskull family below a count's coronet, marked throughout with maker's marks; in a fitted velvet-lined wooden case with three lift-out trays The dinner knife, 11 in. (28 cm.) long; the butter dish, 61⁄2 in (16.5 cm.) wide 449 oz. (13,966 gr.) approximate weighable silver
Provenance
Count Mikhail Frantsovich Koskull (1825-1869) and Princess Varvara Petrovna Shcherbatova (c. 1833-?). By decent to their daughter Countess Sofia Mikhailovna von Koskull (1856-1916) and her husband Count Nikolai Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston (1861-1908). By decent to their son Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Sumarokov-Elston (1893-1970). By direct descent in the family.
Details
Comprising: twenty-four tablespoons, twenty-four dessert spoons, twenty-four dinner forks, twenty-four dessert forks, twenty-four table knives, twenty-three dessert knives, two shell-shaped butter dishes, four shell-shaped salts, two serving spoons, two asparagus tongs,
one soup-ladle; the handles chased with foliate scrolls and rocaille ornaments, the shell-shaped dishes and salts on three shell-shaped feet, all but two pieces engraved with the coat-of-arms of the Koskull family below a count's coronet, marked throughout with maker's marks; in a fitted velvet-lined wooden case with three lift-out trays The dinner knife, 11 in. (28 cm.) long; the butter dish, 61⁄2 in (16.5 cm.) wide 449 oz. (13,966 gr.) approximate weighable silver
Provenance
Count Mikhail Frantsovich Koskull (1825-1869) and Princess Varvara Petrovna Shcherbatova (c. 1833-?). By decent to their daughter Countess Sofia Mikhailovna von Koskull (1856-1916) and her husband Count Nikolai Felixovich Sumarokov-Elston (1861-1908). By decent to their son Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Sumarokov-Elston (1893-1970). By direct descent in the family.
