A large Russian lapis lazuli veneered and gilt-bronze mounted tazza third quarter 19th century
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November 23, 03:52 PM GMT
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 GBP
Lot Details
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A large Russian lap🐲is lazuli veneered and gilt-bronze mounted 🧸tazza
third quarter 19th century
the finely veneered shallow basin raised on a gilt-bronze fluted stem with beaded borders, on a drum-column with borders of reed and leaf and&nb꧂sp;tied oak leaf, the square plinth wiꦦth inverted corners
36.5cm. high, 35cm. diameter; 1ft. 2¼in.♈, 1ft. 1¾in🅘.
The present tazza relates very closely to an example from the Evgenii Semenovich Mollo Collection in malachite and is almost certainly by the same workshop. The Mollo tazza was sold Christie's London, 18 September, 2014, lot 278.