A pair of important Bolin 18K Gold and Gilt Silver Imperial presentation Malachite dishes, C.E. Bolin, St Petersburg, ca
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1890.
The dishes of rounded form mounted malachite on a gilt silver ground with an applied imperial eagle in gold. Diameter 29 cm. Gilded silver edging on the base, 84 standard and makers mark of Bolin.
The malachite most likely is delivered by the Imperial lapidary works.
Provenance
W.A. Bolin Collection
Exhibitions
W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 17.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow , 2001
‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries’, catalogue no 112, p. 170.
Literature
Magdalena Ribbing et al., 'Jewellery & Silver - for Tsars, Queens, and Others, W.A. Bolin 200 Years', Västerås 1996, illustrated and mentioned at p. 53.
Ed. Christian Bolin, Pavel Bulatow, 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries', New Hermitage-one Moskva 2001, illustrated p. 170, catalogue no 112.
More information
The magnificent pair of malachite dishes originally belonged to a set of twelve.
