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Russian Silver Imperial Presentation Racing Trophy
Odessa
1843
height: 35.6 cm
maker’s mark: Cyrillic initials illegible
assay master: Cyrillic initials A.Sh. of unidentified master
assay mark of Odessa, 1843
silver standard: 84 zolotnik
A large silver Imperial presentation racing trophy jug, chased on one side with
an equestrian scene, and with the crowned Imperial coat-of-arms and Russian
Orthodox cross on the other; the body is profusely chased with Neo-Rococo
scrolls, flowers and shells. The double scroll handle has a finial shaped as a figure of
a horse issuing from a flower calyx.
A vase with an identical equestrian scene made by A. Lordon is in the State Russian
Museum in St.Petersburg (see Treasure Storeroom of the Russian Museum.
Commemorating 100 years of the Museum 1898-1998, St.Petersburg, 1998, No., 191,
ill. 178). Another vase also by Lordon has an identical handle (op. cit. fig. 172, cat.
203). These were made in Odessa respectively in 1838 and 1843.
Silver Imperial Presentation Racing Trophy,
1843
A. Lordon
State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
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