A pair of flamboyant and unusual large silver and cut-glass decanters by Wilhelm Bolin Moscow 1912-1917.
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Of baluster form, the bodies cut with a diamond and sunray pattern. The collar and neck mounted with cast and chased accanthus leaves, the handles engraved with twisted leaves, the hinged cover decorated with a naturlistic swan in a humble position, rounded base with scrolls and accanthus leaves. Later hallmarked W.A. Bolin Stockholm 1917 and 1921. Height 38.5 cm.
Provenance
W.A. Bolin Collection
Exhibitions
W.A. Bolin 200 years, 'Smycken & Silver för tsarer, drottningar och andra', Stockholm 1996, catalogue no 39.
The Armoury Museum, the Kremlin, Moscow, 2001 ‘W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries’, catalogue no 137.
Literature
Magdalena Ribbing et al., 'Jewellery & Silver - for Tsars, Queens, and Others, W.A. Bolin 200 Years', Västerås 1996, illustrated and mentioned at pp. 114-115.
Ed. Christian Bolin, Pavel Bulatow, 'W.A. BOLIN Bolin in Russia Court jeweller late XIX-early XX centuries', New Hermitage-one Moskva 2001, illustrated at p. 180,
catalogue no 137 and sketch illustrated at p. 166, catalogue nr 102.
More information
The original drawing for the monumental wine decanters is depicted in the book 'Jewellery & Silver - for Tsars, Queens, and Others, W.A. Bolin 200 Years' and the Kreml exhibition catalogue. Sketch referred to be from around 1900.
