Polychrome Cloisonne Enamel and Russian Silver Gilt Spoon - Antique Circa 1915

Description

This exceptional antique Russian silver gilt and polychrome cloisonné enamel spoon has an oval shaped bowl onto an elongated stem.

The reverse surface of the bowl is embellished with cloisonné scrolling foliate designs amidst bands of white bead decoration using various vibrant tones of green, blue and red sections of polychrome enamel, all on a matte gilt background.

The enamel segments are encompassed with applied silver gilt paralleling rope twist ornamentation.

The gilt stem of this enamel spoon features a segment of rope twist style ornamentation.

This Russian spoon terminates with a blue toned cloisonné enamel decorated knopped handpiece encompassed with lozenge and floral motifs, in addition to a petal design encircling the plain finial.

The hallmarks to the stem of this impressive antique Russian enamel spoon include:

Silver quality/purity mark: 84 (84 zolotniks*)

Kokoshnik mark: ĝ, Delta (Moscow**)

This exceptional example of antique silverware features no maker's mark; the maker is therefore unknown.

* 84 zolotniki is equivalent to 875/1000 or .875 standard silver.

** This variation of the Kokoshnik mark was used from 1908-1926, determining the date of this piece as circa 1915.

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