H.I.H. Alexander III Alexandrovich:
An Imperial Silver Dinner-service, comprising 6 silver plates with chased laurel rims, the borders engraved with crowned cipher of Alexander III, maker's mark J.O. (latin), with mark of Grachev, St.Petersburg, 1882 and 83. The handles cast and chased with laurel garlands, with leaf scroll terminals and engraved with crowned Imperial cipher of Emperor Alexander III, Sazikov, St.Petersburg, circa 1885,
6 table knives, with original steel blades (26 cm)
6 silver-gilt dessert-knives (21.5 cm)
6 table-forks (21,7 cm)
6 silver-gilt dessert-forks (18.2 cm)
6 soup-spoons (22 cm)
6 silver-gilt dessert-spoons (18 cm)
6 teaspoons (14 cm)
6 plates, diameter of three 25 cm., and three 24,7 cm.
Total weight approx. 7100 g.
Christie's Geneva, Important Objects by Carl fabergé, Russian Works of Art, 17 November 1983, lot 112.