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Alexander Iwanow Zhilin

1800 – 1842 Weliki Ustjug, Russia

Gilt Niello-silver box with a map of St. Petersburg, a map of the Battle of Gangut (Hanko) and the coat of arms of Count Fjodor Matwejewitsch Apraxin (1661–1728). 1824/25

Silver, chased, gilt; Niello. 17,9 × 21,8 × 3,2 cm (7 × 8 ⅝ × 1 ¼ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Alexander Iwanow Zhilin. Gilt Niello-silver box with a map of St. Petersburg, a map of the Battle of Gangut (Hanko) and the coat of arms of Count Fjodor Matwejewitsch Apraxin (1661–1728). 1824/25.

Estimate:

EUR 15,000

 

- 20,000

USD 16,800

 

- 22,400

Sold for:

18,750 EUR (incl. premium)

Autumn Auctions 2016

ORANGERIE Selected Objects, Thursday, 01.12.2016

Information

Silver, chased, gilt; Niello. 17,9 × 21,8 × 3,2 cm (7 × 8 ⅝ × 1 ¼ in.). Master's mark: Alexander Iwanow Zhilin [1824–1827]; hallmark of Matwej Iwanow Igumnow [traceable 1809, deceased 1826] 1824 (blurred); city mark: Weliki Ustjug [1815–1827]; silver content: 84; weight: 1.426 g.

Archival object with such a box: inventory of Yussupow-palace, St. Petersburg, 1850s, amendment (Russian Public Records Office Moscow, фонд 1290, Оппиь 4, Ед. Хр. 384, стр. 10), there: „Cigar case with the map of St. Petersburg and the Tsar's eagels in the corners. On the sides the coat-of-arms of the cities of the Russian Empire and a map of the sea-battle Angut. Silver, Niello, 4/5 dyuima“ (translation from Russian).

Related literature: Alexander of Solodkoff: Russische Goldschmiedekunst, Munich 1981, p. 55.

Since the 1980s private collection, Netherlands