GRAND DUKE MICHAEL PAVLOVICH SERVICE. A LARGE FRENCH SILVER SALVER OR SERVING DISH, JEAN-CHARLES CAHIER, PARIS, 1809-19

GRAND DUKE MICHAEL PAVLOVICH SERVICE. A LARGE FRENCH SILVER SALVER OR SERVING DISH, JEAN-CHARLES CAHIER, PARIS, 1809-19

plain circular with leaf and berry rim, engraved with crowned cypher 'MP'
41.3cm., 16¼in. diameter
1865gr., 60oz.

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Provenance:
The majority supplied to Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich (1798-1849) son of Tsar Paul I (r.1798-1801) and brother of Tsar Alexander I (r.1801-1825) and Tsar Nicholas I (r.1825-1855)

Probably Alexander Lyudvigovich, 2nd Baron Stieglitz (d.1884), St. Petersburg

Confiscated either from the Stieglitz family or the Stieglitz Museum by the Soviet Government, circa 1917