The Demidoff Cup, a highly important gold and enamel presentation cup and stand by Gabriel-Raoul Morel Paris, dated 1824

20ct, the urn shaped cup with a fruiting grapevine and acanthus frieze and palmetes, the foot and rim with stiff leaves, upturned handle. With three enamel miniatures possible by Pierre-Henri Sturm (1785-1869) depicting the mining of gold; copper and iron ("mine d´or; Mine de Cuivre; Mine de fer"). The stand with similar fruiting grapevine and acanthus frieze, the underside with engraved text: "Cette Tasse a été faite avec le premier or trouvé à Nijnotaguilsk gouvernement de Perme en Sibirie l´Année 1824 et donnée a Anatole Demidoff par son père". Both with marks. Height of cup 17,5 cm, diameter of stand 16,2 cm. Total weight 776,3 gram (cup 473 g, stand 303,3 g,). Gabriel-Raoul Morel (fl. 1797-1832) may be considered as one of the most important French gold boxes makers of the first half of the 19th Century and he supplyed both the court of Napoleon and that och Louis XVIII.