A Group of Twenty Russian Cloisonné Enamel Silver-Gilt and Wood Salt Cellars

Comprising: a salt cellar with lobes, enamelled with flowerheads and foliage, within wirework borders, by V. Makhalov, Moscow, 1899-1908, also with later Soviet marks; a salt cellar, on three ball feet, with scrolling foliage within blue and white zigzag borders, by Alexander Egorov, Moscow, 1893; a salt cellar, on three ball feet, with scrolling foliage within blue and turquoise borders, by Ivan Saltykov, Moscow, 1890; a salt cellar, with shaped feet, with scrolling foliage and white beaded border at the top, engraved with 'I.K. / 10 XII 1918' under base, by Petr Miliukov, Moscow, circa 1890; a salt cellar, with foliate motifs in shades of pink, blue and green, by Pavel Ovchinnikov, Moscow, 1899-1908; a salt cellar, on a slightly tapering circular foot, with scrolling foliage within red beaded borders, by Nikolai Zverev, Moscow, 1899-1908; a salt cellar, on three ball feet, with foliate motifs between dark blue beaded borders, by Ivan Saltykov, Moscow, 1889; a salt cellar, on three ball feet, with scrolling foliage within white beaded borders, by Petr Miliukov, Moscow, 1899-1908; a salt cellar, on three ball feet, with foliate motifs between turquoise beaded borders, by Ivan Saltykov, Moscow, 1893, also with later Soviet marks; four salt cellars, on three ball feet, with flowers and foliage in shades of pink, blue and green, on gilt stippled ground, within white beaded borders, by Ivan Alekseev, Moscow, 1908-1917; six salt cellars, with Karelian birch bodies, applied with cloisonné enamelled bands at the top, apparently unmarked; a salt cellar, with foliate motifs, by Pavel Ovchinnikov (mark partially erased), Moscow, 1908-1917, bearing spurious mark for Fabergé; together with fifteen Russian and European salt spoons

Estimate:£3,000

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