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Spoon with Images of Fish
(18th and 19th Centuries )
On the spoon's bowl, two blue, red, turquoise and white fish, in pierced plique-à-jour enamel, swim among bulrushes. The fish on the reverse are speckled and hover in the water above the sand. Water eddies are suggested by parallel lines of filigree on grey enamel. The handle is twisted and terminates in a filigree-enameled section and a finial.
Grachev incorporated a similar fish into a plique-à-jour teacup, saucer, and spoon, which were exhibited in Munich in 1986/87.
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Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
Russian Sale, Sotheby's, New York, December 6, 1994, Lot 260; purchased by Jean M. Riddell (Leo Kaplan as agent), Washington, D.C., December 8, 1994; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2010.
Geographies
Russia, Saint Petersburg (Place of Origin)
Measurements
L: 7 5/16 x W: 2 3/8 in. (18.5 x 6 cm)
Credit Line
Bequest of Mrs. Jean M. Riddell, 2010
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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44.969